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...Last April, Mason, onetime associate editor of the Sunday supplement This Week, moved in. He borrowed some old tricks, and added some circulation-getting new ones. His latest circulation claim, which the Audit Bureau of Circulations would confirm or deny in due course, touched off the kind of he-man's war of words between him and Purdy that Argosy's and True's red-blooded readers had a right to expect...
...Jima's greatest asset is leathery, lithe John Wayne. His relaxed acting of a sleepy-eyed, two-fisted he-man (6 ft. 4 in.) has made him a pillar of credibility in many an unlikely blood & thunder epic. Broken in like a good saddle, in 150 pictures over 20 years, his coarse-grained appeal has finally won 42-year-old Actor Wayne a place (according to Showmen's Trade Review) second only to Bob Hope among the U.S. box office's favorite male stars...
...befriended by the great novelist Gustave Flaubert and brought into the master's Sunday literary circle. There he sat at the feet of Europe's literary greats: Turgenev, Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Hippolyte Taine and occasionally Henry James. Zola remembered De Maupassant as "a proud he-man [who] told us dumfounding stories about women, amorous swaggerings that sent Flaubert into roars of laughter...
...Shoemaker, stick to your last!" was the sound advice dealt out to his fellow craftsmen by hardworking, he-man Author Ernest Hemingway in the afternoon of a full life. "If a writer," wrote Ernest in the New York Times Book Review, "became a critic or entered other fields it could lead to grave humiliations . . . Think of how it could shake a writer's confidence to lose the Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead...
...major portion of Author Steen's book concerns Hero Johnny Flood's tussles with witch doctors and rebellious Negroes on the Gold Coast-a he-man's world which supplies the crunchier passages of Twilight's prevailing nougat. It also provides Author Steen with one of her most stunning sentences: "On the poop of the Rembwe, Macpherson's beard burnt like an oriflamme...