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Four men sat around a long conference table in a Manhattan publisher's office one day last week, registering varying degrees of pleasure. Large, dapper Publisher Richard Roy Smith beamed. Wide-eyed Critic George Jean Nathan puffed contentedly on a cigar. Ernest Boyd lolled crosslegged, grinning through his messianic beard. Hulking Theodore Dreiser looked less glum than usual. All had just learned that the first monthly issue of The American Spectator ("A Literary Newspaper") published by Mr. Smith and edited by the three writers (plus James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill) had sold out its entire edition...
CRIMSON DAILY DARTMOUTH White, F. H., r.e. l.e., Banks Weld, r.t. l.t., Moore Creelman, r.g. l.g., Palmer White, P. (Capt.) c. c., Danielson Ingram, l.g. r.g., Hymen, (Capt.) Boyd, l.t. r.t., Ripley Lilley, l.e. r.e., Barrett Sims, q.b. q.b., Hess Monre, l.h.b. l.h.b., Wardwell St. John, r.h.b. r.h.b., Webb Hogart, f.b. f.b., McVicar...
...absolutely no purpose in writing my book," the noted author replied in answer to a question as to why he had commenced his latest undertaking, "except to amuse myself. As you know, my book is the result of Mr. Ernest Boyd's suggestion that my acquaintance with frontier society might be serviceable in the explanation of Mark Twain. It was originally intended to be one of a series of short biographies, to be known as the 'International Men of Letters Series.' The articles, however, were never published, and I, therefore, decided to continue my work, with 'Mark Twain's America...
Tammany's political focus next shifted to Albany where the Democratic State Convention is being held this week. In prospect was a hot fight between Governor Roosevelt backing Herbert Lehman for the gubernatorial nomination and Tammany supporting Albany's Mayor John Boyd Thachcr. Brooding over the confused scene was Alfred Emanuel Smith. Citizen Smith favored the Lehman nomination but he was bound by pledges of non-interference with Tammany's wishes which he had given at the Chicago convention. That the G. 0. P. would nominate William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan?Irish. Roman Catholic, an American Legionary ?for Governor...
...faculty of a director, three assistant sculptors, a painter, a musician and several industrial technicians. Opening in October, the Taliesin Fellowship will have room for 70 apprentices at a little over $500 yearly apiece. Among them will be Manhattan Sculptress Lucienne Bloch, Peiping Architect Yen Liang and Vischer Boyd, son of a Philadelphia architect...