Word: deckhands
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Author, Thomas Craven, 42, is a red-haired Kansan, as unassuming in private conversation as he is dogmatic on the printed page. He has been a reporter in Denver, a schoolmaster in California and Porto Rico, a deckhand in the West Indies, an unsuccessful painter and poet. His essay, "Have Painters Minds?" in the American Mercury for March 1927, brought him into contact with such critical bigwigs as Britain's Roger Fry, France's Elie Faure. Today the entire U. S. art world pays attention...
...save his own face. Other Brundidge exploits: expose of the Midwest medical ''diploma mill" scandals of 1924; conviction in 1925 of Ray Renard ("The Fox") of the notorious Egan gang and the solution thereby of 22 murders. Also in 1925 he got a job as deckhand on a rumship plying between New Orleans and Havana, wrote thereafter a series of articles on liquor smuggling...