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...Savannah, Ga., Francis Marion Gill, a Confederate veteran aged 81, laid claim to being " the oldest father in the U. S." by reason of a boy born a year ago to his wife, aged...
...sportswriter, war correspondent, dramatic critic and colyumist, and at the present time his column in the New York World, It Seems To Me, is unique in its field. He is the author of Seeing Things at Night and Pieces of Hate (books of short essays and sketches) and The Boy Grew Older (a novel...
...author of The Blind Bow-Boy is a tall, slim, white-haired, slightly florid young man of middle age. I have often observed him, have corresponded with him, but have never consciously spoken to him. I should have a constant fear that he would ruin some pet illusion of mine by a vagrant flippancy?and that I should be tempted to attempt to knock him down where he stood. Yet from all accounts Carl Van Vechten is a charming fellow. He is fond of cats (as the world reading his books knows). He has lived much on the Continent...
...Vechten is a brilliant writer. Parts of Peter Whiffle, parts of The Blind Bow-Boy, more particularly certain portions of his essays exhibit rare qualities of humor and beauty. Yet his books lack body and form, even that body and form which the frothiest of literary efforts must have. When I think of Van Vechten and his work, I think immediately of an expert characterization of his own in describing the heroine, Campaspe, in The Blind Bow-Boy. " Her body," he writes, " is her chief mental pleasure...
...went around once again. When he got out of his cockpit, his legs had gone to sleep. But he forgot sleep, fatigue, grease, wind and dirt, when his chief Admiral Moffett slammed his own hat on the pilot's head and asked some one to "give the boy a drink...