Hellieon Hall, an organization in tha east jeaTB 

 befoi?e, where radicals lived together* Sinclair 

 Levia, X think, was the kid in the grcmp* 



Il» Carpel t too, the author of Rugglea of Red &aP s 

 Harry Leon Wilson, was living at that tixoe. Ha was 

 one of otir beat hxunorists* 



1 remeiiiber, too, at the tixae Peter Kyna tmk 

 Mr, Loriiaer were together, Irving Cobb had just 

 begun to becosM iii^ortant, Kyne admired his work 

 end ha asked about him* *What kind of a looking 

 fellow is Cobb?" Loriiaer laughed and said, "He's 

 Just a big, fat slob,* 

 0ilbt That's diswlsaing him rather abruptly. 



Who were some of the outstanding literary 

 eritiea here at that tine? 

 Oogginst Vail, the beat known book reviewer, if that's what 

 you aiean, was Cteorge Hammond Pitch of the Chronicle > 

 It was pretty well toward the end of his life whan 

 X aaM to California, end he had a reputation up 

 and down tha eoast^ and people would refer to hira* 

 Not many years later, Joseph Henry Jac^on eeme out 

 from the East and he worked, I think, first for the 

 Stinset magazine and later ably filled Mr. Pitch's 



