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Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy) and a committee of writers belonging to the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners went to bloody Harlan County, Ky. to investigate coal miners' woes. At Pineville rustic detectives said they saw Investigator Dreiser and one Marie Pergain, blonde secretary attached to the party, go into Dreiser's room. The sleuths propped toothpicks against Investigator Dreiser's door. When they came back next morning, they said, the toothpicks were still in place. Investigator Dreiser, 60, and his friend were indicted for adultery. Mr. Dreiser left Kentucky, protested his innocence, backed...
Married. Lady Sophie Mary Heath, 35, aviatrix; and George Anthony Reginald Williams, 33, aviator, West Indies-born; in Lexington, Ky., whither they had gone for the Prince of Wales steeplechase. Said the bride: "This is the first time I have ever married a young man. My first husband, Elliott-Lynn, was 76 when we were married, and my second, Sir James Heath...
...Author. Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 46, good-looking but unmarried, lives near Springfield, Ky., where she was born, whither some of her ancestors had plodded from Virginia over "Boone's Trace." Independent, self-contained, her speech and writing alike are full of a mannered dignity, a compound of books and Kentucky dialect. Before she settled down to be an important U. S. novelist she wrote a book of poems, Under the Tree, which won the Fiske Prize. When the Literary Guild chose A Buried Treasure for its November book Authoress Roberts hung up a figurative trophy: she was the first authoress...
...March of Events Weekly Program. As a result of this activity on your part something like 50 new members have joined and received their degrees of Fellow Pumper. Included in this number was Lunsford P. Yundell, president of the Mohawk Mining Co., who pumped a pipe organ in Danville, Ky. As a reward for his services he received 10? a Sunday. This fee was augmented when the secretary of the church paid him 1c for every 100 fly pelts he turned in after each service. Not only has Mr. Yundell been made the Guild's Official Fly-Swatter...
...ENFIELD, M.D. Louisville, Ky...