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...Significance. LeRoy MacLeod considers he has written no diatribe against preachers, says: "I hope no one will find in Three Steeples the profession of my beliefs. ... I have . . . painted a landscape and some people?men and women reading the earth under the quandary of the sky." A long novel, many-charactered, Three Steeples gives a broad, detailed, sympathetic picture of the U. S. Middle-Western rural scene. It is serious, ambitious, not as drab as it sounds...
...Author. LeRoy MacLeod, once an adman like Sherwood Anderson, founded the advertising agency of Waters & MacLeod (Los Angeles), retired from it in 1929 to cultivate the thankless muse. Three Steeples is his first novel, but he has also written a book of verse, Driven, which called forth from his great & good friend Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, English poet, the statement that MacLeod is "the only United States poet I have known with the 'Hardy' quality...
...Kahn '34, J. T. Kenney '34, C. H. King '34, G. E. McAdams '33, W. A. McGivney '33, Graham Macleod '33, Andrew Marshall '34, E. B. Marshall '34, D. Mc. Mathews '32, David Miller '34, T. F. Parshley '34, J. S. Plaut '33, A. W. Polk '34, Roger Potter '32, J. T. Quinby '34, G. R. Shaw II '34, H. S. Sise '34, Thomas Spencer '34. Charles Stephenson '34, John Swarts '34, Christopher Sykes '33, Bartlett Thorogood '34, Legrand Thurber '34, Atreus von Schrader '34, Richard Walsh '34, C. R. Ware '34, Carter Wells '34, George Wightman '34, Harrison Williams...
...Persuaded a great teacher Dr. John James Rickard MacLeod, professor of physiology at the University of Toronto,? that he was on the verge of isolating pancreas hormone (insulin) which promised to be the best treatment (possibly the cure) for diabetes. He needed laboratory facilities and opportunities for clinical experiment. Professor MacLeod secured him a lectureship in pharmacology at the University of Toronto (pay $1,000 yearly). For pocket money Dr. Banting cut out tonsils...
...Professor of medical research (Toronto); Nobel Prize for medicine (jointly with Professor MacLeod...