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...Grey, 64, best-selling romancer of the open range, record-holding deep-sea angler; of coronary thrombosis; in Altadena, Calif. Native of Zanesville, Ohio (named after his family), former dentist, former baseball player, he had to publish his first book himself, hit the jackpot with Riders of the Purple Sage, turned out 37 novels in 35 years-for over 15,-ooo.ooo readers...
...Russell Sage's James Laurence Meader (an exception): "England and France . . . have the right to expect every type of service we are capable of rendering short of sending an expeditionary army. . . . [We must come] to their active assistance at once rather than wait until we find it necessary to fight Hitler and all that he stands for single-handed...
Effect of the first lilacs on Judge Hardy is to make him an easy prey for a couple of swindlers. Andy and his father eventually cool off, to the accompaniment of such a wealth of domestic detail, adolescent humor and sage headshakings that hyper-domestic cinemaddicts will have a wonderful time. Those who dislike Mother's Day will be apt to feel that they have just been through it again...
...come near to succeeding. He now controls five newspapers-two Amarillo dailies (plus a Sunday edition), two others in nearby Lubbock, and the one his father Ed, the late famed Sage of Potato Hill, left him at Atchison, Kans. He controls four Texas radio stations. His headquarters are in Amarillo and there he organized and now operates an annual Mother-in-Law Day, attended last year by Eleanor Roosevelt. His own mother-in-law lives with him, his wife & daughter. He has helped dedicate Amarillo's new post office, given Postmaster Farley an Arabian saddle horse, acted as chief...
Rensselaer was almost wiped out by fire in 1904. It was resurrected by Mrs. Russell Sage (who gave it $1,000,000) and by an anonymous old man whose money made the institution what it is today but who for more than a third of a century has been known to Rensselaer men only as "The Builder." Rensselaer's alumni have long speculated about "The Builder's" identity. This month Rensselaer's busy President William Otis Hotchkiss at long last told them. Because he died last January (at 73), his family consented to let it be known...