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...Harper's barely kept up with the whizzing journalistic world. In the depression of the 1890s, it almost went under. Only in the nick of time did J. P. Morgan bail it out with fresh funds. In the mid-'20s, the emphasis on illustration and fiction that had won Harper's its fame was jettisoned as Harper's changed with the changing times. The magazine began to concentrate on current affairs...
...buyers plan to hold the Terminal buildings, which were built in the '20s by the empire-building Van Sweringen brothers for $100 million, as a long-term investment. Some day, they may construct the three additional buildings which were in the original plan. This time Bob Young left no loopholes; he collected part of the purchase money last week, set a deadline of 30 days for the rest...
Died. Dudley Field Malone, 68, who made news all through the '20s as a big-time lawyer in Manhattan and Paris, a friend of celebrities, a mixer-in-politics and a taker-up-of-causes (feminism, persecuted Reds, Tennessee Darwinian John T. Scopes); of a heart ailment; in Culver City, Calif. Seldom in the limelight since the early '30s, Malone became a Hollywood lawyer, played Winston Churchill in the 1943 movie Mission to Moscow ("All lawyers and politicians are actors at heart...
When a cache of Boswell's private papers turned up in Ireland's Malahide Castle in the mid-'20s scholars promptly agreed it was the greatest literary find of the century. In 1930, rummagers at Malahide poked into an old croquet box, found more. In 1931, a third cache was uncovered in Scotland's Fettercairn House, squirreled away in storerooms and a nursery cupboard. In 1937, a fourth find was made at Malahide, and two years later another, this time in a heap of papers stored over an unused stable. Last week, to slightly winded Boswell...
Bestsellers have never been Conrad Aiken's forte. He reached the peak of his reputation during the '20s, when he wrote long and languid narratives about sexual decadence, blending the theories of Sigmund Freud with the tone of Edgar Allan Poe. In 1930, his poetry won him a Pulitzer Prize. Since then, Aiken has increasingly found himself in the painful position of the good minor writer who has ceased to be a novelty, his name well known but his work little read. Never one to cater to literary fashion, Aiken has continued to write as he sees...