THE LETTERS OF ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTTEdited by Beatrice Kaufman and Joseph HennesseyViking ($3.50).
One day a boatload of trippers who were circling Vermont's Neshobe Island, summer hideaway of the late Alexander Woollcott, spied, under a vast straw hat, a vast bulk swathed in a dressing gown. "Who on earth is that?" screamed one of the ladies. "Marie Dressier," said her benchmatethereby adding another quip to the many already provoked by Mr. Woollcott's complex personality.
Even his best friends disagreed about the Town Crier's real nature. Acid Poetess Dorothy Parker believed he had "done more...