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...permit to operate revoked, the Harvard Liberal Union's OPA booth in the Square was forced to suspend operations by order of the Cambridge City Manager last Tuesday. The booth, which was set up in front of the Coop on Monday, had already sold 30 telegrams and over one hundred postcards to passers-by to send to their Congressmen protesting the delay in the return of OPA controls...
...booth containing postcards and blank telegrams was set up outside the Coop yesterday by the University American Veterans Committee chapter and the Harvard Liberal Union to urge passing students to wire or write Congress advocating repassage of the OPA bill...
Representatives of the sponsoring organizations reported an enthusiastic response. The booth is still up today and will remain up for an indefinite time for the convenience of students interested in saving...
Died. Newton Booth Tarkington, 76, best-selling literary Gentleman from Indiana, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Magnificent Amber sons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922), whose heirs included Willie Baxter, Penrod and Sam, Monsieur Beaucaire; after long illness; in Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with...
Hoosier Hooky. The dean of U.S. cartoonists was a Tippecanoe County farm boy. He went to Purdue (class of '89) with two other famous Hoosiers, Author Booth Tarkington and Humorist George Ade. A few years later, after Ade joined him on the staff of the old Chicago News, he pair played hooky to go sightseeing in Europe. Their boss astonished them by raying for the features (stories by Ade, ketches by McCutcheon) that they mailed home...