Author's Day

Readers of both fiction and philosophy could learn something last week from the news of two U.S. marriages:

P: Dr. John Dewey, Columbia University's famed 87-year-old philosopher, got married in Manhattan to Mrs. Roberta Grant, a dark-haired, attractive, 42-year-old Pennsylvania widow. He received reporters who besieged his apartment with mingled resignation and amusement. Said he: "I know what the general public reaction is whenever an old man marries a young woman."

P: Edmund Wilson, critic, novelist, author of Memoirs of Hecate County, a study of evil among the intelligentsia, took a fourth wife. She was tall, dark-haired Mrs. Elena Thornton, a Manhattan divorcee. The marriage ceremony, performed at Reno, Nev. a few hours after Wilson divorced his third wife (Author Mary McCarthy) , was followed by a furious honeymoon. The pudgy, 51-year-old critic took a swing at a reporter as he got on a train at Reno, in return got kicked in the pants and was chased through half a dozen cars. In San Francisco, where his book had just been given a clean bill of health, he burst indignantly past interviewers, retreated to a St. Francis Hotel room and refused to answer the telephone.

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