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...role as Hearst's "Cholly Knickerbocker," pompadoured Society Gossip Igor Loiewski-Cassini (TIME, Nov. 5) last week started a series of profiles on New York social registerites. To prepare himself, he boned up on the Astor clan by reading Dixon Wecter's scholarly Saga of American Society. When it came time to share his new-found knowledge with his readers, Gossip Cassini found himself full of his reading. Samples...
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME - Dixon Wecter - Haughton, Mifflin...
...Allmost Descureged." When Johnny Comes Marching Home is a timely history of homecomings from the U.S.'s three major wars : the Revolution, the Civil War, World War I. Author Dixon Wecter (The Saga of American Society; The Hero in America}, professor of English at the University of California, has written a fascinating study of the profound tension and misunderstanding between civilians and veterans, of civilians' short memories and seeming ingratitude, of veterans' increasing success in rewarding themselves through their organized political strength...
...U.C.L.A.'s Professor Dixon Wecter; to write "a history of the Roosevelt family in America...
...SAGA OF AMERICAN SOCIETY- Dixon Wecter-Scribner ($4). Dispassionate, 504-page history of U. S. socialites since 1607. concluding with a quiet suggestion that, as "hostages for its own safety," the upper crust would do well to spend more money on living artists, cultivate the English tradition of public service, cease showing...