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Embassy officials are now confiding to their friends: "He's a great chief!" And last week the interest of U. S. citizens in Germany was aroused when Great Chief Sackett put on his long, heavy, fur-lined coat, sank his square jaw in its black Persian lamb collar, and went out to have a look at the famed Leipzig Fair (TIME, March...
...Author. Author William John Locke, 67, mathematician, schoolteacher, architect, novelist, has been overpraised by the Atlantic Monthly as "the kindliest spirit in English letters since Lamb." Born in Barbados, he was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, taught archi- tecture, became Secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects, in 1907 became a fulltime novelist. Schoolmasterly in appearance, pince-nez-ed, Author Locke likes dogs, children. He is married, has one adopted daughter. Fortnight ago Author Locke was seriously ill in his villa on the Riviera, his great & good friend Author E. Phillips Oppenheim at the bedside. Other...
Among the former Fellows of the Foundation in creative writing are Stephen Vincent Benet, whose book "John Brown's Body" written as a Fellow won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Harold Lamb, whose book on the Crusades has recently been published and has been chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for March
Shattuck and Lamb and their horde...
...Author. Author Harold Lamb wrote this book on a Guggenheim Fellowship-($2,500 for one year), followed the path of the Crusaders through Syria. Other books: White Falcon, Marching Sands, House of the Falcon, Tamerlane, Genghis Khan. The Crusades is the March selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club...