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Into a yellowed, two-story frame house at Endicott, N. Y. one day last week a delegation bore 18,000 cards and stacked them on a table before the old man who lives there. "From a loyal E. J. worker to our friend George F.," read each of the cards. "On this Thanksgiving we are thankful. We want you to be thankful with us." Thankful with them was George F. (for Francis) Johnson, cofounder and board chairman of Endicott Johnson Corp., second largest shoe manufacturing company...
...above all, Hichens and Hutchinson last week bore witness to the long lives of second-rate writers. For the fluent second-rate writer works regular hours, takes care of himself, makes good investments, usually writes one best-seller and at last acquires a kind of momentum which enables him to go on selling novels that no young novelist could get published...
...office, had so few contacts with the French literary world that even his closest friends did not know where he lived. The Conquerors was followed by a mediocre adventure story laid in Indo-China, The Royal Way. In 1933 his wife, who translates books from German into French, bore him a daughter, Florence. When Man's Fate won the Goncourt Prize the same year, Malraux's popular success was assured. In the U. S. and England a good part of its popularity came from its superb translation, by University of California Professor Haakon Chevalier, who captured the distinctive...
Dean Landis of the Law School, chairman of the Committee for Plan E bore the brunt of the attack, as his campaign slogan of the "People against the Politicians" was changed by Plan E opponents to "Landis against the People...
Hooked into a communications circuit to relay their warnings were the lines of 15 local telephone companies (to the vast pride of Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s C.P. ["Old Man Mac"] McClure, retired, who installed the first telephone in the State). Off shore, Coast Guard cutters bore observers. At Craven County was ebullient Tom Haywood, who won brief fame by inventing a rotary kicking machine for citizens who should kick themselves. At New Bern was Cap'n Tom Daniel, 72, who at 52 insisted on fighting in the last war, came home minus...