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...Mencken's hypochondria, Willa Cather's will, and Thomas Mann's four-day 80th birthday party all came up for discussion last night as Alfred A. Knopf reminisced about his 45 years in the publishing business at a Lowell House Ford Dinner...
...same vein, the septuagenarian publisher described his experiences with such authors as Thomas Mann and Willa Cather. He told of a college professor who wrote about a Montana river that was "like a navel cord" and "waterways that really brought forth men and women." He talked about Kahill Gibran, who wrote The Prophet, Knopf's best-selling book, which only began to drop in sales when Knopf started advertising...
Coming up-Willa Gather...
...Blumenschein, 86, magazine illustrator turned portraitist and Southwest landscape painter, who in 1898-when his wagon broke down while he was on his way to Mexico on a sketching trip-stayed on in Taos, N.M., founded an artists' colony that attracted Max Weber, John Marin. D. H. Lawrence, Willa Gather and Mabel Dodge Luhan; of bronchial pneumonia; in Albuquerque...
...lifelong self-criticism of every word I write with the exception of my grocery list. I am torn between adding to the well-deserved tributes you will surely receive from Mr. Keables' former students and the fear that this letter will be published containing some terrible grammatical error. WILLA BEE ROBBINS HOLMES ('47) Aurora, Colo...