Great Companions - Critical Memories Of Some Famous Friends

Max Eastman GREAT COMPANIONS CRITICAL MEMOIRS O F SOME FAMOUS FRIENDS Farrar, Straus and Cudahy NEW YORK Copyright 1942, 1959 by Max Eastman Library of Congress catalog card number 59-6068 First Printing, 1959 The quotation from Edna St. Vincent Millay is taken from Collected Poems, Harper Brothers, copyright 1928 by Edna St. Vincent Millay copyright renewed 1956 by Norma Millay Ellis. Published simultaneously in Canada by Ambassador Books, Ltd., Toronto. Manufactured in the U. S. A. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Two of the twelve memoirs in this book appeared in some what different form in the Readers Digest. Parts of three others appeared in my book, Heroes I Have Known, pub lished by Simon Schuster in 1942. Other parts appeared in the Freeman, The American Mercury, Etude, and the National Review. The portrait of my mother is repub lished by request from my earlier book and from the Readers Digest. Contents Explanatory 3 OLD MAN SCRIPPS 7 THREE VISITS WITH EINSTEIN 21 THE GREAT AND SMALL IN ERNEST HEMINGWAY 4 MY FRIENDSHIP WITH EDNA MILLAY 77 SANTAYANA IN A CONVENT THE MAGICS IN PABLO CASALS PROBLEMS OF FRIENDSHIP WITH TROTSKY DIFFERING WITH SIGMUND FREUD J7J TWO BERTRAND RUSSELLS CHARLIE CHAPLIN MEMORIES AND REFLECTIONS 207 JOHN DEWEY MY TEACHER AND FRIEND MY FIRST GREAT COMPANION 299 E. W. Scripps Eisenstaet Albert Einstein