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Much of the majesty appertaining to the great New York Times has resulted from its stern refusal to print "features,"-i.e. comic strips, "colyums," Nell Brinkley claptrap, Dr. Crane flub-dub. Nothing but straight, reliable news went into the Times, soberly written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: About Face | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...SUNKEN GARDEN-Nathalia Crane-Seltzer ($2). With a poet's precision it is told how, on Nov. 23, 1924, the 16-year-old Duchess of Kendal, later to be known as Orena, was cast upon an Afric isle when her yacht was riven with electric bolts from an oxeye tornado. There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad. Soon he was able to convince her, however, that he was descended from the Child Crusaders of the 13th century, of noble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Octans and Orena | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...Crane is, of course, only joking. She will not "do" anything. Didn't she let Mr. Crane give Nathalia a typewriter for Christmas? Didn't she keep rushing to the encyclopedia at Nathalia's command to look up African flora and fauna for this prose opus? Mrs. Crane knows quite well she can "do" nothing about it if Nathalia breaks out again in the next six years. She is perfectly aware that in the girl flows blood, not only from John and Priscilla Alden, but from "the grand old Spanish family, Abarbanel, who counted among their number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Octans and Orena | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...relationship has been traced between Nathalia and Dr. Frank (Helpful Hints) Crane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Octans and Orena | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

Married. Miss Hope Eaton, daughter of William H. Eaton, niece of Winthrop M. Crane (paper); to one Alexander Simpson 3rd, employed by the Eaton, Crane & Pike Stationery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

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