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June. In San Antonio, Charles M. Dickson withdrew as a candidate for the state legislature, explained that his health would not permit him to go through a "stump-speaking, barbecue-eating, beer-drinking and baby-kissing campaign...
Whodunit Author John Dickson Carr (alias Carter Dickson), master of the murder in a locked room, took deadly aim at Whodunit Writer Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler, who specializes in hard-boiled detectives and publicly hoots at his clue-scattering colleagues (TIME, April 24). In a New York Times review of Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, Carr wrote: "If, to some restraint, he could add the fatigue of construction and clues . . . then one day he may write a good novel...
...employment of persons whose commitments or obligations to any organization, Communist or other, prejudice impartial scholarship and the free pursuit of truth." On March 23 a poll of the faculty revealed that it had voted 1,025 to 268 against employing Communists on the faculty. Regents chairman Edward A. Dickson stated: "The result is of national significance. It is the first time that the faculty of any great university has gone formally on record as sup- porting a policy of outlawing subversive teachers and influences...
Ordeal for Hire. In San Antonio, Charles M. Dickson withdrew as a candidate for the state legislature, explained that his health would not permit him to go through a "stump-speaking, barbecue-eating, beer-drinking and baby-kissing campaign...
Indiana: George M. Dickson, Jr., '22; 803 Security Trust Bldg., Indianapolis...