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World's End, Between Two Worlds and Dragon's Teeth have all been best-sellers in England, and the publisher, Werner Laurie, wrote me that he was using nearly all his quota of paper for them; he added that he had sold 5,000 copies of Dragon's Teeth in Glasgow, and that, knowing the citizens, he considered phenomenal. World's End has been out for a year in Sweden, and the publisher, Axel Holmstrom, has just airmailed me a bunch of clippings, all expressing delight with the book. My American publisher, Ben Huebsch, writes...
...Special Delivery letter, stamps plastered grandly across the entire top of the envelope, blew in last night. From Miss Marllou Donarell of Lawrence came a challenging cry: "It behooves can of the so-called 'weaker sex' to restore the honor of the Dragon Lady." The message she got, unfortunately, was "JAP HID TRAP." but none can help but admire this courageous woman straggling alone in a far-off town, triumphantly achieving her long-sought goal...
Believing that the honor of the University if not of the Dragon Lady is at stake, the CRIMSON has therefore decreed that it will present to the first person who brings the correct solution of the puzzle to the President's desk one large can of beer--provided only that he beats Milton Caniff to the draw...
...upshot was that the Senate upheld the censors 34-to-2. Meanwhile the censors were feverishly banning not only cheap pornography but such books as Pearl Buck's Dragon Seed, one edition of Baedeker, the essays of William Ralph Inge, longtime "Gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's, and five bedtime stories. They also clamped down on most of the tales of the most distinguished Irish novelists, including Liam O'Flaherty...
...find the Black Dragon boys in the dull, stuffy, British-style Tokyo Club, drinking gin & bitters. Toyama's men were eating raw fish and seaweed in their gathering places in Shinjuku and Mukojima, where, I am certain, Mr. Byas did not have the interesting fortune to enter upon the conclaves and hear the plots. The locale and character are as different as Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club and a Harlem honky-tonk marijuana parlor...