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unusual facts about American Mercury



David Dallin

When Shaplen and Kravchenko did not get along, Dallin turned to a former United Press correspondent to Moscow, Eugene Lyons, by then editor of The American Mercury.

Frank Chodorov

Chodorov published articles in a variety of magazines, including H.L. Mencken's American Mercury, the Saturday Evening Post and Scribner's.

Irving Fiske

Fiske, a 1928 graduate of Cornell University, had worked for the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the 1930s, had written for H. L. Mencken’s American Mercury, had corresponded with George Bernard Shaw, had written an article now considered a classic, "Bernard Shaw’s Debt to William Blake", and had translated Shakespeare's Hamlet into Modern English.


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The Coachmen

American Mercury also got a fair amount of alternative radio airplay, including on WFMU.