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...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 chucklers about...
Hoosier Hooky. The dean of U.S. cartoonists was a Tippecanoe County farm boy. He went to Purdue (class of '89) with two other famous Hoosiers, Author Booth Tarkington and Humorist George Ade. A few years later, after Ade joined him on the staff of the old Chicago News, he pair played hooky to go sightseeing in Europe. Their boss astonished them by raying for the features (stories by Ade, ketches by McCutcheon) that they mailed home...
Recollection of a Past. That afternoon Churchill was in Williamsburg, the colonial town which John D. Rockefeller Jr. has carefully restored, even to the colonial façade on the A. & P. store. It proved a dangerous expedition back into the historical past. He and Eisenhower had climbed into an 18th-Century coach when the horses, frightened by the photographers' flash bulbs, suddenly plunged and reared. Women screamed. Negro drivers grabbed at the reins. Eisenhower solicitously grasped Churchill's arm. Churchill, outwardly unmoved, puffed on his cigar, occasionally doffed his hat and gave his V-sign...
Easy Aces. Whatever happened, it looked like the end of Lescot's political career. His impenetrable affability had been equal-till last week-to all occasions. A suave dictator behind a constitutional façade, chubby, pleasure-loving Elie Lescot had always paid his way with charm. As Ambassador to the U.S.. his easy style of living almost got him into trouble. When his Government sent him $60,000 for arms purchases, he squandered $35,000 before a gun was bought, was saved only by a check from Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo...
This production, which marks the first time the HDC has worked independently of the Radcliffe Idler since the pre-war years, will again be directed by Fritz Jessner, who held the same position for last term's performance of "Much Ade About Nothing...