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...sheriff-elect of Fairfield County, Conn, appointed Sportswriter William O'Connell McGeehan of the New York Herald Tribune to be an honorary deputy. To an interviewer from his own newspaper, Mr. McGeehan told how he had been a deputy before, when 13 convicts escaped 25 years ago from Folsom Prison in California and fled toward Nevada. Deputy McGeehan's posse started after them with bloodhounds and, after days and nights of travelling, passed close to a spot where three of the quarry were hiding. ''After the second day the country was so tough the bloodhounds gave...
Geoffrey West makes no mention of his pseudonymous fellow, Rebecca West (Cicely Isabel Fairfield, now Mrs. Henry Maxwell Andrews), onetime great & good friend to H. G., who once sat at his feet, has since penned some interesting observations of her former master. Wells's attitude to his profession is hardboiled, so sensible you wonder if he can really mean it. Says he: "I have never taken any great pains about writing. I am outside the hierarchy of conscious and deliberate writers altogether. . . . Sir J. C. Squire doubts if I shall 'live' and I cannot say how cordially...
Married. Cicely Isabel Fairfield (Rebecca West*), Scottish, critic and novelist, now a book-critic for the New York Herald-Tribune ; and Henry Maxwell Andrews, London banker; in London...
Little over a year ago President Henry Fairfield Osborn of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History made dire threats to his directors. He was irked by the annual hat-passing made necessary by the Museum's perennial deficit. If new endowment was not forthcoming, said he, the following would be apt to happen: dismissal of 35 employes, stoppage of support for field expeditions, reduction of publications, suspension of other museum work...
Delegates then heard energetic Mrs. Carleton H. Palmer of Fairfield, Conn, and Brooklyn, past president of the Association, say: "The Eastern and the Western Hemispheres shall meet. Thirty years ago the Junior League and the 20th Century were born. . . . The time has come. . . . The youth of America should lead the advance guard of an international movement endorsing general disarmament. . . . The ideals which have inspired the Junior League to a steady onward march of evolution and progress are an example to the world of the dynamic power of fearlessness, of goodwill, and of faith in mankind...