Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...puzzled attention Dakotawards by his ten laconic words: "I do not choose to run for President in 1928." After the election of 1928 restored Calvin Coolidge to private life, South Dakota joined the parade of those seeking to enlist his laconic literary talent. It was arranged that he should write a 500-word history of the U. S. for Sculptor Gutzon Borglum to carve upon the granite face of Mount Rushmore, popular eminence in the Black Hills...
...defense of Clémenceau which follows is heavily documented, technical, frankly written by Clémenceau for Clémenceau?a deed which thousands of authors pretend to do ("I write first of all to please myself") but which not one in a thousand does...
Carl Eric Wickman, 42, chief Greyhound advisor, is at present Chairman of the Pacific Greyhound System where he is coordinating things. A great broad-shouldered man who has not lost his Swedish accent, he prefers Eric to Carl, loves sport, lets no one make him write letters, whistles during conferences...
...native of Harrisburg, Pa., moved to North Carolina when he was 13, lives at Southern Pines. He graduated from Princeton (1910), spent two years at Trinity College, Cambridge. Before the War he worked with Publisher Doubleday Page because he liked books, thought he had not enough ability to write one himself. After the War doctors ordered him South. Says he: "I had to do something . . . so I decided to try writing short stories. . . ." Lean, tanned, Author Boyd is Master of Hounds at Southern Pines, hunts three days a week during the season. Other books: Drums, Marching...
Author Joseph Hergesheimer, middleaged, fat, placid, writes with great care and with such involved, Henry-Jamesian qualification that he sometimes irritates. But he always manages to spin a compelling yarn. A Pennsylvania "Dutchman" (German), he was left some money at 21, began to write because he helped a woman novelist read her proof, disliked what he read. His first story he rewrote 20 times, parts of it 100 times; did not succeed in selling a story till 14 years later. He lives well in West Chester, Pa., collects antiques, is married. Other books: The Three Black Pennys, Quiet Cities, Tubal...