Book Beat Mencken Reviews Reopen Thoughts
Critic William H Nolte revisits H L Mencken in HL Menckens Literary Critic praising his daunting satire on pedants and Puritans. Nolte defends his approach while praising Mencken and notes the need for a modern reader to encounter his demolishing voice.
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Alistair Cooke
Guy J. Forgue
Bryan
University of Missouri
Beard pulling at Barth critique on Giles Goat-Boy
Critics debate John Barth’s Giles Goat-Boy or the Revised New Syllabus. The review weighs originality and brilliance against excess, tracing Barth’s influence, Mencken, and American literary culture, asking when another comparable voice might appear.
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New York Times
Giles Goat-Boy
John Barth
Earth
Radio Rights Cost 1966 Football Telecasts Rise
Broadcasts and telecasts of 24 pro and 116 college teams for 1966 will cost networks, stations, and advertisers about 44.1 million dollars, up from 1965. The breakdown shows 41.2 million from networks, plus 1.28 million local college and 0.36 million AFL and NFL rights, with sponsors expected to pay around 100 million for accompanying coverage.
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Fake Masterpieces Worth A Fortune At Fox Studio
Hollywood AP reports Twentieth Century Fox bought a $100,000 forger collection. The studio paid young artists to create 75 paintings and sculptures in old masters style for How to Steal a Million. Each work bears an indelible forgery stamp on the back. Henry Hopkins of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art comments on the issue.
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Twentieth Century-Fox
Paris
Henry Hopkins
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Debates Help Actress Up Ladder Of Success
Julie Sommars, rising actress, credits debating and oratory for career training. In 1958 she, a Central High School debater in Aberdeen South Dakota, won the state title beating ten boys in the American Legion oratory contest.
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Central High School
Aberdeen
S.D
American Legion
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Rita Hayworth
Judy Holliday
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