Playbill

November, 1956

We don't remember who it was described Philip Wylie as "God's Little Acher" but it was an apt soubriquet for this bitcher-and-moaner sans peur et avec reproche. In both fiction and non-fiction, the wily Mr. Wylie has been lighting firecrackers under the fanny of complacency for some time now: Generation of Vipers, with its famous mauling of "mom," was a major social fact of its day; his doom-doting novels, like Tomorrow!, have been used in' Civil Defense drives; his tirades a...