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Historians of American business have consistently elected to follow one of two extreme paths. They have either been disciples of Ida Tarbell and the muckrakers, or they have trod mincingly behind the apologetic steps of Arundel Cotter's infamous "U.S. Steel: A Coporation with a Soul." Messers. Cochran and Miller, instructors at New York University, have instead attempted to write a chronicle of businesses as an ever-expanding institution. Their task is history, not propaganda...
...Bring me your first chapter in two weeks," said Tarkington. Roberts dashed home, in a week wrote Chapter I of Arundel. Tarkington thought it was fine. Soon, with $1,000 from Publisher Russell Doubleday (who showed "astounding trustfulness"), Roberts rushed off to the cold discomforts of an Italian "palace" where, by "sitting at a desk, facing a blank wall," he wrote 2,200 words a day. Now & again he would storm out to take furious potshots with his .22 rifle at squirpling sparrows. When Arundel was finished in 1929, Novelist Roberts decided that "the life of a railroad track-worker...
...such circumstances Arundel's sale was small, but it was steady. Soon Roberts was working on The Lively Lady, an early 19th-Century story of privateering and Dartmoor jail. Then he went back to the American Revolution. Rabble in Arms was finished in the hungry autumn of 1933. Wrote Roberts in his journal: "Finished the proofs. Broke and almost dead." Said A. Hamilton Gibbs: "A masterly presentation of the period." Murmured Friend Alexander Woollcott: "A fine murmurous forest of a book...
16th Duke of Norfolk, 27th Earl of Arundel, Premier Duke & Earl of England, turned up in a French hospital south of the Somme, having been wounded at Boulogne. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, Viscount Cowdray, grandson of multimillionaire Engineer Sir Weetman Pearson and non-playing captain of the British polo team that played in the U. S. in 1939, returned badly wounded from Flanders to have his left arm amputated in Durham Hospital. Upon hearing the news, his wife gave birth to a premature daughter...
Married. Lady Rachel Howard, 34, eldest sister of the Duke of Norfolk, who is Britain's No. 1 Roman Catholic peer; and Colin Keppel Davidson, 43, Clerk of the House of Lords; in Arundel, England...