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