Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small institute of landscape architecture sponsored by the Garden Club of Lake Forest, has grown a Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The late Edward Lamed Ryerson. steel & iron man, left money for the movement. Active as officers are Walter Stanton Brewster (broker), Tiffany Blake (Chicago Tribune editorial writer), Alfred E. Hamill (Hathaway & Co., paper), Mrs. John E. Geary (North Shore clubwoman). Director is Stanley Hart White, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. Students are picked yearly from the architectural schools of five Midwestern institutions-Iowa State College, the universities of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Armour...
...American Art Annual Sculptor Dreyfuss is listed as a sculptor and writer, pupil of George Grey Barnard, member of the Art Students' League of New York, sometime Instructor in Modeling at Cooper Union, Manhattan. Among his works is the Arsenal Park Memorial in Pittsburgh. His wealthy family say he is insane. They want him locked...
Died. Harry Charles Witwer, 39, of Los Angeles, humorous "slanguage" writer (From Baseball to Bodies, The Leather Pushers, Love and Learn, Classics in Slang); in Los Angeles...
...Author. How much academic education does it take to be a writer earning respectable money? Charles Fulton Oursler, now 36, finished all schooling with seventh grade grammar, in Baltimore. Thereafter he studied French literature, sleight-of-hand, farm implements, music. He earned money by the last three. Real success came with his play, The Spider, a Broadway smash in 1927, now playing in Budapest and Paris. His somewhat spiritualized view of Adah Menken is partly explained by his membership in the American Society for Psychic Research...
Fortnight ago Willard Huntingdon Wright, more famed as "S. S. Van Dine," detective story writer, gave up a murder case because it was outside his jurisdiction as Honorary Police Commissioner of Bradley Beach, N. J. Last week the mystery was taken up by John D. Coughlin, lately ousted as chief of New York City detectives for his failure to solve the Rothstein murder. Quickly tracking nebulous clues, Detective Coughlin caught the driver of the murder car within three days, closed in on the actual murderers. Readers of Van Dine books (The Bishop Murder Case, The Canary Murder Case), are still...