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...Prize for reporting. In 1920 Swope was installed as the World's executive editor, and during eight succeeding years he made the World in his own image: argumentative, boisterous and usually entertaining. He gathered a staff that eventually included Walter Lippmann, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun and Alexander Woollcott, won the paper two more Pulitzer Prizes for its exposes of the Ku Klux Klan and of prison conditions in Florida...
...Pretty Penny," her 21-room house in suburban Nyack, N.Y., abounds in memories: a wood carving from Alex Woollcott, a clock from Richard Burton, a salad bowl from John Barrymore. "Bric-a-brac, that's what it all is," says Theatrical First Lady Helen Hayes, 63, who has already put up for sale the house where she spent nearly three decades with Playwright Charles MacArthur. This week the dishes, furniture and memorabilia-more than 1,000 items-will be sold at auction on the front lawn, with proceeds going into a scholarship fund named for Daughter Mary, who died...
...plays he directed (many of his own. and such others as Of Mice and Men, My Sister Eileen and Guys and Dolls), he spoke like a young mother. But he terrified waiters, suffered fools badly, and did not welcome familiarity from underlings-or from overlings either, as Critic Alexander Woollcott. his boss when Kauf man was on the drama desk of the New York Times, reported with asperity. "I can testify," said Woollcott. '"that he was always careful to treat me like dirt." Folding Tens. In his plays he could be fey and even sentimental...
...stage. Once in a Lifetime still remains the funniest Hollywood satire ever written, memorable among other things for the Schlepkin (read Warner) Brothers, marching from the wings in military formation; The Man Who Came to Dinner portrayed a porcupine in the shape of a man. un mistakably Woollcott with more than a few quills of Kaufman; and Of Thee I, Sing, a spoof that could teach a few mocking lessons to the Mort Sahl generation created the unforgettable Throttlebottom as well as the national committeeman who sold Rhode Island ("Nobody missed...
...bridge player in the country," and Actress Mary Astor, in her celebrated diary, described him as the "perfect" lover. "I take no games lightly," said the playwright, and he did not. He played croquet, his literary set's favorite outdoor pastime, with ferocity, assuming a stance that reminded Woollcott of "a morning-glory vine climbing a pole." He was one of the deadliest pot rakers of the most famous seated gathering since King Arthur's, the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club; and when he failed to prosper, he beleaguered Heywood Broun, Harpo Marx, Herbert Bayard Swope...