Abstract
One of the first friendships Ernest (1899-1961) formed upon moving to in 1921 was with Guy Hickok (1888-1951). A native of Mecca, Ohio, Hickok was bureau chief for the Daily from 1918 to 1933. In 1935, he left the paper and held a number of writing and editorial jobs until his death in 1951 (Guy Hickok Dead). The two journalists covered the Lausanne Peace Conference in December 1922. During a stint as editor of Ford Madox Ford's (1873-1939) Transatlantic Review, published Hickok's Herriot in the States, an account of French Prime Minister Edouard Herriot's (1872-1957) tour of the United States (the article was reprinted by Hickok's paper on September 7, 1924). In March of 1927, the two men made a brief tour of northern Italy in order to gather material for Hickok to write 'silly stuff about Fascism there' (Pagnattarro 38), which also did in Che Ti Dice La Patria? The latter piece, which first appeared as the nonfiction article Italy-1927 in the May 18, 1927, issue of the New Republic and was reprinted with its new title as a story in Men Without Women in October 1927, recounts Hickok's solicitation by a waitress, the two men's being extorted by a policemen, and the effect of fascism on the attitudes and behavior of the Italian people.Che Ti Dice La Patria? is the most prominent use by of his friendship with Hickok. Less well known are the uses Hickok made of his friendship with and the ways in which used Hickok to generate publicity. Between 1925 and 1934, Hickok wrote sixteen articles for the Daily that either mention or are wholly about his life or work. Heretofore, only four of these articles have been known to scholars. Audre Hanneman lists two in Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography: Hemingway First Lives Wild Stories, Then He Writes Them (346) and Paris Won't Let Live a Private Life (358). (The first, which has previously not been reprinted, is reproduced below.) Paul Montgomery found two additional stories, which Hickok wrote shortly after the 1927 Italian trip, by going through microfilm of the paper. These articles, Ezra Pound, American Author, Now in Genoa, Has Regular Bathtub and Charming Wife and Mussolini's Fascist Militia Good to Look at, but Make Botch of Guarding Crossings, appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of the Review.I have been able to locate twelve additional articles using a website called Old Fulton NY Post Cards that boasts on its main page that users can Search Over 23,580,000 Old New York Historical Newspaper Pages. This survey is imperfect as the scanned pages are saved as PDFs of entire pages (not by individual articles), which the search function's optical character recognition (OCR) has a difficult time converting to recognizable text. The Public Library, in cooperation with Newspapers.com, recently completed its project of digitizing the entire run of the newspaper, and this site's search function works much better. At the time of my research, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online (now Newsstand) had only the years 1841 to 1902 completed. Perhaps now that the years covering Hickok's tenure with the paper have been uploaded, more articles on by Hickok will be uncovered.The six articles reprinted below are the most extensive Hickok wrote on that have not been previously republished; the other articles either have been reprinted, contain only brief mentions of Hemingway, or do not deal directly with him-such as Hickok's article on rare book prices for Hemingway's work. The first and last are feature stories, in-depth articles on the author and his interests. The others are dispatches Hickok sent to the newspaper during his travels around Europe, though they were mailed to the Daily after his returns to rather than cabled to the paper during his travels. The veracity and accuracy of these articles is dubious; it is not clear whether it was who exaggerated parts of his biography-such as his wounding during World War I-when relating them to Hickok or whether it was Hickok who embellished them for his readers. …
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