Time

The Press: Shouter & Murmurer

U. S. sophisticates last week clucked over a new tidbit about Alexander Woollcott, roly-poly chatterbox of The New Yorker. According to the New York World-Telegram, Mr. Woollcott was out of The New ...
Time

Books: Pumblechook

THE LETTERS OF ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT—Edited by Beatrice Kaufman and Joseph Hennessey—Viking ($3.50). One day a boatload of trippers who were circling Vermont’s Neshobe Island, summer hideaway of the ...
Dallas Observer

Let’s Have A Talk

Once upon a time, a bunch of writers got together to hold a luncheon roast for famed critic Alexander Woollcott. They had such a good time that the group–composed of Dorothy Parker, Robert Sherwood, ...
Time

The Press: Red Rag

To the bull spirit of U. S. newspapers, a red, red rag is radio’s blatantly exaggerated “coverage claims.” Last month mild-mannered Alexander Woollcott became an unwitting toreador in the radio v.
Opinion

Too little too late’ exposes inability to handle ‘midlife blues’

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral or fattening”, opined American critic and journalist Alexander Woollcott, a member of the Algonquin Round Table. In a way, the ...