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...Oxford Group is the biggest hoax ever forced upon man in the name of religion. It is devoid of any intellectual content; it is suited to people who don't think at all. A chimpanzee would be eligible for membership provided it had a dinner jacket and looked respectable...
...more "high class" fan mail than any other single entertainer on the Columbia network. Sales of his book, While Rome Burns, approached 90,000. Like bumboat boys diving for pennies, book publishers scrambled for Woollcott words of praise for a new work, to splash on the volume's jacket as the blurb of blurbs. He prefers to "discover" some inconspicuous novel and, like a testy old sage, rebuke his public for lack of appreciation. He is the William Lyon Phelps...
...jacket of February Hill appears the descriptive blurb: "The story of an amoral New England family." Like most blurbs this one conceals more than it tells about Victoria Lincoln's excellent novel. If the publishers had been looking for a more accurate, though perhaps less cunning, device for gaining publicity they might have called it a study in contrasting morals. It is true that Minna Harris, the strongest character in the book, finds little time to bother herself with moral reflections. She is a June among prostitutes who supports her family on the profits of her popularity among travelling sports...
...Singer, a small earnest man who flutters and squirms as he talks, still wears his Harvard disguise: flannels, grimy white shoes, nipped-in tweed jacket, and an approximation of the "whiffle hair-cut". He carries a text-book and loose-leaf notebook...
Last night I was privileged to enjoy one of the more enjoyable privileges of being a stage star. I interviewed a handsome blonde editor of the Harvard Lampoon. He was wearing a ravishing blanket effect jacket supported by yards of flannel beneath, and brought up by a train of black and white shoes. Oh, but let me tell you the whole exciting adventure as it happened...