Profiles II

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PROFILES II SELECTED FROM "THE NEW YORKER' ララ (476) The names of most of the ten Americans of whom "close-ups are here presented are household words wherever English is spoken. The New Yorker's breezy and, sometimes, bitter biographies deal with Alexander Woollcott, the humorist; W. C. Fields, comedian, movie star, and mimic of pom- posity; Raymond Gram Swing, broadcaster on international affairs and current events; Salvador Dali, surrealist painter; Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, ambassador to th...Vis mer