Yet in many ways his life will surprise Irregulars, to learn about his origins and upbringing the powerful effect World War I had upon him as a young man the actual role he played in General Motors’ Overseas Operations division, a bit different from what some Irregulars believe, who think of him as a car salesman on a grand scale how personally in the late 1930s and early ‘40s the approach of World War II hit him and how he played a significant role in the making of postwar America.
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So Edgar Smith was a very familiar figure to the Irregulars of his era, and to readers of my BSI Archival History series so far. Smith was of course “the best and wisest man the man the BSI has ever known,” first attending an annual dinner in 1940 (and helping to spark it, after the BSI dinner’s four-year hiatus!), and soon becoming the person really in charge of Baker Street Irregularity until his too early death in 1960 – in the process, producing a very substantial pile of his own Writings About the Writings, and founding the Baker Street Journal in 1946 which he edited until his death. Smith: Prolegomena to Any Future Biography. For too long, I’ve alluded to a forthcoming volume in my BSI Archival History called Edgar W. On the 16th, I promised an announcement next time of something new coming to this website, something I hope of considerable interest to followers of the BSI’s history. Anyone wishing to attend talk or dinner should let me know, at my email address above, as soon in advance as possible, especially where dinner’s concerned - the dining-room has one big table (the custom being to take the first open seat from the end near the club lounge, and converse during lunch or dinner with whomever’s seated around you), and seats 32 comfortably. The talk including Q&A will start aroung 6 p.m., and be followed by an optional three-course dinner with wine by Chef Irene for $40. And on the eve of the BSI weekend, Wednesday January 13th, I’m giving an informal talk there on “Deficit, Damnation, and Death” - Christopher Morley and His Clubs, including The Coffee House (and also the BSI). Christopher Morley was a member of The Coffee House (founded 1915 by Vanity Fair editor Frank Crowninshield and literary friends of his), in the 1920s and early ’30s before the Great Depression got him by the throat (and pocketbook). Next month’s BSI weekend will include the annual BSI Special Meeting at The Coffee House club on W. At the Tate through April 10th.Īlso read, at Arts & Letters Daily a few days ago, this review of Michael Dirda’s latest book about books, from the Weekly Standard. If this link doesn’t work, it’s worth going to the newspaper’s website directly for it. Not only do the subjects include ones in which he had personal interest, such as a painting of “The Death of General Gordon, Khartoum, 26th January, 1885” by George Joy, the exhibition includes the Afghan Wars in one of which Dr. Watson getting into line for it long before the opening hour. Read: in the January 6th Wall Street Journal, “Grappling With History” about an “Artist and Empire” exhibition at London’s Tate Gallery that would have had Dr. As a Master Copper Beechsmith of The Sons of the Copper Beeches, out of which this Irregular anthem came via James Montgomery BSI in the late 1940s, and a fan of the late Bill Rabe BSI’s 1990 history of it, I look forward to reading this greatly, and will review it at this website as soon as possible. Received, from William Hyder BSI, a copy of “Aunt Clara” Clarified: Unearthing the Original Tune of “We Never Mention Aunt Clara” in the Year of Its 80th Anniversary. (Not to mention being a publication party for the first collection of Irregular writings, 221B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes, edited by Vincent Starrett.) The 1940 dinner was, after the first annual dinner in 1934, the most important one in the BSI’s history, since it revived the annual dinners after four years of Christopher Morley’s indifference, and brought Edgar W. I’ve provided the complete 1940 dinner photo and my updated key to it to the BSI Trust, to replace what’s there now. I noticed that the 1940 dinner photo at the BSI Trust website is incomplete, missing its left margin with three important Irregulars.
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Smith: Prolegomena to Any Future Biography.Īt Disputations this time, the 1940 BSI dinner photograph plus a new key to it, but there because the key - though better than the one in my BSJ Christmas Annual - is still incomplete, and potentially contentious in some cases. Steven Rothman, and other editors of the Baker Street Journal.) (with a wink at Philip Shreffler, Donald Pollock,
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