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Died. Newton Booth Tarkington, 76, best-selling literary Gentleman from Indiana, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Magnificent Amber sons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922), whose heirs included Willie Baxter, Penrod and Sam, Monsieur Beaucaire; after long illness; in Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...Riley Steel Co.; J. S. Warshaw, an "industrial consultant"; Assets Reconstruction Corp., Ltd.; Pacific American Steel Iron Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Steel Bids | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Frank Joseph Riley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Counts Its Dead of the Second World War | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

...Riley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Git Gat Gittle | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...Last week, at Fort Riley, Kans., Colonel Shannon took off his eagles, traded them for the stripes and rockers of a master sergeant-and went back to saluting second lieutenants and calling them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Plucking the Eagles | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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