Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parliamentary hero this week was the author of the bill, Punch'?, famed Humorist Alan Patrick Herbert, M. P., whose friends call him "Peck" while his public calls him "A. P. H." Not in many years has a private member's bill such as this been permitted by His Majesty's Government to win its way through the Lords and Commons, but in England divorce is still such a risky subject that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has been overjoyed not to have to touch this bill, fortunately presented by a sort of Court Jester to His Majesty...
...York News (biggest in the U. S.), pre-War circulation manager in Chicago for Hearst and then the Tribune, took steps to clear his name of having had any part in fostering Chicago rough stuff. His lawyers began a libel suit for $250,000 against Burton Rascoe, author, and Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., publishers of the book, Before I Forget. Mr. Rascoe, who was writing for the Tribune when Mr. Annenberg was there, remembered in his book a lot of things that had happened to delivery trucks and newsstand dealers, drew the conclusion: "This was the beginning of gangsterism...
...Rankers, whose refrain it uses almost intact. Not everyone knows that the score was written by an Amherst man, the late Tod Galloway, who put a lot of Kipling to music, or that the words date from the autumn of 1909 when cadaverous Meade Minnigerode, since famed as the author of The Son of Marie Antoinette, The Magnificent Comedy, and George Pomeroy composed them for the delectation of a drinking group formed the spring before and called the Whiffenpoofs. G. Schirmer, Inc. contest that they got the rights to the song for an official Yale Song Book. Miller Music...
Died-Vivian Burnett, 61, writer, editor, second son of Author Frances Hodgson Burnett for whose famed Little Lord Fauntleroy he was the inspiration and model; in Manhasset, N. Y. When he was seven, Vivian Burnett suggested to his mother that she write books for children like himself. That this prompted her to produce the book that set fashions for a decade and that Vivian Burnett was the prototype of its hero, Authoress Burnett confessed 13 years later when her son was a member of the track team at Harvard. Said Vivian Burnett, who later became a reporter, an editor...
...Author. Like his aspiring hero Harry Patterson, Clyde Brion Davis "has all his life been trying to unscrew the in-scrutable." Described as having "a vaccination scar on the left arm, a hand grenade scar on the back of the neck, a horse kick on the right shin, a mole on the left cheek," 42-year-old Author Davis has been a steamfitter's helper, chimney sweep, furnace repair man, electrician, detective, a knockabout journalist from Buffalo to Seattle. His hobbies include "spinning members of the W. C. T. U. and D. A. R. in revolving doors," giving fellow...