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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
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Birth: | 3rd July, 1900 |
Death: | 16th March, 1969 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Critic, Journalist |
John Mason Brown was born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an American drama critic, journalist and author. He graduated from Harvard College in 1923. He worked for the New York Evening Post from 1929 to 1941. He served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II. He wrote column in The Saturday Review starting in 1944 until his death in New York City. He wrote several books include: To All Hands, The worlds of Robert E. Sherwood (biography), and Still seeing things.
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