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BEACH RED-Peter Bowman-Random House...
...overt acts, and became the center of a literary flurry in Manhattan. Pulitzer Prizewinner Conrad Aiken considered him "less traitor than fool", E. E. Cummings whipped up a paraphrasing of "To thine own self be true. . . ." ; Louis Untermeyer favored life imprisonment among the works of Eddie Guest. Random House hastily dropped Pound from a forthcoming poetry anthology...
...inflation is a murderous handicap to trade. There is a wonderful Shanghai story of a case of sardines which was traded around in maybe 20 transactions with everybody making money. Then one smart guy opened a can, then several others picked at random; all were bad. Outraged, he called up the last seller and complained. Cried the seller: "You opened them? My God, man! Those sardines aren't for eating, they're for buying and selling...
PRATER VIOLET - Christopher Isherwood - Random House...
...Morse remembers less prosperous days. He left the University of California in 1922 without a degree, wandered up & down the Pacific Coast on random newspaper jobs, writing a few $25 radio scripts. In the early '30s a Coast radio executive assured him that he was "all written...