Word: mccutcheon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Republican cartoonist who has not participated in this year's campaign because of illness is John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune. In his stead the Tribune's editorial policies have been faithfully illustrated by Carey Cassius Orr. The Orr cartoons, many of them telling complete comic strip stories such as the labored transposition of "Garner of Texas" into "Garner of Taxes" are models of geometrical precision...
...reduce the tax levy. Correspondence: $500 to Walter Duranty of the New York Times for his articles on Russia; $500 to Charles G. Boss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a discussion of the U. S. economic situation. Editorial: no award. Reporting: deferred. Cartoon: $500 to John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year's foremost Broadway production, to the Pulitzer Board a "biting and true satire on American politics." Novel, History...
...with his wife, a son, 13, who attends Horace Mann School, and a daughter, 16, at St. Agatha's. He likes to remember his early days in Chicago when he marveled at the sparkling, spat-wearing elegance of Art Young, the glittering importance of George Ade and John McCutcheon, the portfolio of sketches brought to his office one day by Rose O'Neill. Of late Dirks's interest in comics has waned, his penchant for oils waxed. Connoisseurs of Manhattan's art exhibitions have long been familiar with still-lifes by R. Dirks, latest of which...
...Author, Within the memory of living men, 65-year-old George Ade was accounted one of the three brightest boys in Chicago (the others: Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon, Howard Hackett). From a reporter on Chicago's Record George Ade rose to the level of "Mr. Dooley" (Finley Peter Dunne) with his Fables in Slang which H. S. Stone & Co. printed, Clyde J. Newman illustrated. No longer most up-to-date of U. S. slangsters, but wealthy, still unmarried, Author Ade winters in Florida, lives as a gentleman farmer in Brook, Ind. Golfing enthusiast, football fan, he is known...
Married. Dana McCutcheon Dawes, 20, freshman at Williams College, adopted son of U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain Charles Gates Dawes; and Eleanor Frances Dillingham, 20, sophomore at Mount Holyoke College, daughter of Professor Frank T. Dillingham of the University of Hawaii; secretly, last month; in Belchertown, Mass...