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Tanner bottles his bestselling fizz under polypseudonymous labels. As Patrick Dennis he created the madwoman of Beekman Place, Auntie Mame. As Virginia Rowans he examined The Loving Couple and its five-year itch. Again as Dennis, he wrote (with Barbara Hooton) Guestward Ho!, the saddle-slipping saga of a Manhattan couple turned dude-ranch managers. On the assumption that the public is now hopelessly Tanner-Dennis-Rowans-addicted, his publishers are currently offering two seasonal pick-me-ups, one a reissue entitled House Party (originally published in 1954) and the other a collaboration with Dorothy (The Crystal Boat) Erskine called...
GUESTWARD HO! (270 pp.)-Barbara Hooton, as indiscreetly confided to Patrick Dennis-Vanguard...
...from Paradise Isle. The refreshing switch in this latest packet of nonfiction escape literature is that Barbara Hooton thought of Manhattan as paradise and regarded the wide-open spaces as a disease which Hubby Bill had somehow caught. Her account of the running of a New Mexico dude ranch, as breezily set down by her collaborator and longtime friend, Patrick (Auntie Mame) Dennis, might be subtitled "Auntie Mame Rides Again" or "The Comic Labors of Hercules...
...White never knew or cared what percentage of his ancestry was Negro, though Harvard Anthropologist Earnest Hooton estimated it at i/64th. In most states, he was legally a white man, and even in some areas of the Deep South, e.g., the Carolinas, White would have passed as a white under the miscegenation laws...
...paper work still covers his desk, and if you drop in to talk to him, he will apologize for his rolled-up shirt sleeves and be most glad to discuss anything but himself through a smile at the corners of his mouth. His appointment to follow Hooton, he says, is the accomplishment of which he is proudest. And while the door of Room 56 in the Peabody Museum still has the late professor's name painted on the glass, a member of the anthropology faculty points out, "Howells is the one unique person who could have stepped in here...