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...time of literary rebellion which came like a rude but welcome belch after a dull and heavy meal. Among the loudest belchers were famed Critics H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. At a Manhattan party one night, "Red" Lewis drunkenly embraced Mencken and Nathan and yelled: "So you guys are critics, are you? Well, let me tell you something. I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country . . ." Next day, after reading the proofs of Main Street, Mencken wrote to Nathan: "Grab hold of the bar-rail, steady yourself, and prepare for a terrible shock . . . That...
...fine May evening in 1912, two testy young U.S. critics strolled along the Champs Elysees in Paris. "Isn't it magnificent?" asked George Jean Nathan. Replied H. L. Mencken: "You can have it. I want a good American drugstore, where I can get a first-class toothbrush...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Violinist Nathan Milstein...
There are two leading guys. One, Nathan Detroit (Sam Levene), manages floating crap games and has been affianced for 14 years to a nightclub singer (Vivian Elaine) who longs for "a home with wall paper and bookends." The other guy, Sky Masterson (Robert Alda), will bet on any thing - even that he can persuade a "Save-A-Soul Mission" lassie (Isabel Bigley) to go with him to Havana. While the law is missing out on dice games in sewers and Salvationist missions, love gets Sky firmly into its clutches, and leaves him out to make converts rather than points...
Captain Dave Nathan's Winthrop football team played alert football yesterday afternoon to defeat Davenport, 12 to 0. Dick Manning scored in the opening minutes of the game on an 80 yard off tackle smash, and Walt Greeley passed to Jim Fykoff for the extra point. Frank Hernberg passed to John deSaint Phalle for the final score...