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...codes and recovery, the President found time to complete the reorganization of his Latin American diplomatic corps. As Minister to Paraguay he appointed Indiana's Author Meredith Nicholson, 67. Member of the Hoosier State's famed literary group (George Ade, Booth Tarkington, the late George Barr McCutcheon, the late James Whitcomb Riley), Author Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men) began in politics by fighting the Ku Klux Klan. He was elected Indianapolis city councilman, worked hard for a city manager plan. Though passionately fond of oratory, he has been not an outdoor...
...Floretta D. McCutcheon of Pueblo, Colo., considered to be the world's best lady bowler: records of 250-8 for 11 games and 248-2 for 12 games, bettering her own best previous scores, and a perfect game (300), the 8th in her career; in the course of a single evening's exercise, at St. Paul, Minn. ¶ William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, itinerant Georgia heavyweight pugilist: a 12-round bout against Dan McCorkindale of South Africa; by decision; before the biggest African prizefight crowd (15,000); at Johannesburg...
...famed Republican cartoonist who has not participated in this year's campaign because of illness is John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune. In his stead the Tribune's editorial policies have been faithfully illustrated by Carey Cassius Orr. The Orr cartoons, many of them telling complete comic strip stories such as the labored transposition of "Garner of Texas" into "Garner of Taxes" are models of geometrical precision...
...reduce the tax levy. Correspondence: $500 to Walter Duranty of the New York Times for his articles on Russia; $500 to Charles G. Boss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a discussion of the U. S. economic situation. Editorial: no award. Reporting: deferred. Cartoon: $500 to John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year's foremost Broadway production, to the Pulitzer Board a "biting and true satire on American politics." Novel, History...
...with his wife, a son, 13, who attends Horace Mann School, and a daughter, 16, at St. Agatha's. He likes to remember his early days in Chicago when he marveled at the sparkling, spat-wearing elegance of Art Young, the glittering importance of George Ade and John McCutcheon, the portfolio of sketches brought to his office one day by Rose O'Neill. Of late Dirks's interest in comics has waned, his penchant for oils waxed. Connoisseurs of Manhattan's art exhibitions have long been familiar with still-lifes by R. Dirks, latest of which...