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...life of President Ben Alexander of Masonite Corp. On his desk in the wallboard company's executive offices in Chicago's Conway Building appeared a big bouquet of red roses from his wife, marking his tenth wedding anniversary. The roses also served as a remembrance for his 42nd birthday. Meantime Mr. Alexander's Masonite published its annual report for the fiscal year through August showing record profits, celebrated its tenth business birthday, announced a refinancing plan and split its stock...
FRAYSER HINTON Former Capt. 42nd (Rainbow) Division Memphis, Tenn...
Nearly 1,000 Negro physicians, surgeons and dentists assembled last week in Philadelphia for the 42nd annual convention of the National Medical Association. As a symbol of interracial fraternity, Dr. Peter Marshall Murray, 46, gynecologist of New York City's Harlem Hospital, removed a multiple fibroid tumor from a patient in Philadelphia General Hospital, first piece of surgery ever performed by a Negro practitioner in that white hospital's long history...
...simple. Basis of the book is the life stories of a few men and women whose careers converge or parallel each other. Some, like the promising but spineless Harvard intellectual, Dick Savage, have figured prominently in the previous volumes. Red-faced, hard-drinking Charley Anderson barely appeared in The 42nd Parallel; Margo Dowling, dissolute and disillusioned cinema queen, makes her debut in The Big Money. Dos Passos' method is to follow one of his characters through some meaningful experience or period in his life, then shift to another. Between chapters he inserts the short biography of some real public...
...England. As a correspondent and free lance in Spain, after the Armistice, he wrote his second, Three Soldiers, which made him a name in the U. S. with its four-letter realism. With Manhattan Transfer (1925), in which he started experimenting with the form he later perfected in The 42nd Parallel, his literary reputation was solidly established. Besides his novels, he has written two books of travel, a volume of essays, a volume of verse, three plays, translated Poet Blaise Cendrars from the French and adapted a novel by Pierre Louys for the cinema (The Devil Is a Woman...