Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second husband, now she has her third. Her present U. S. appearance, while it pleased many, pleased, especially pleased, St. John Ervine, visiting London critic, who was reminded of his home town so happily that he wrote a glowing tribute to Fay Compton while he clawed Olympia and Author Molnar...
Died. Frances Newman, 40, author of The Hard-boiled Virgin; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Lew Wallace, 70, Indianapolis barrister, nephew of the late General Lew Wallace, Hoosier author of Ben Hur; from a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Barrister Wallace's father was a law partner of President Benjamin Harrison. Ovid Butler, one of Barrister Wallace's grandfathers, founded Indiana's Butler University; Grandfather David Wallace was once Indiana's Governor...
...Pioneer Thompson sold his interest in the J. Walter Thompson Co.; retired. Last week Pioneer Thompson died. Today the advertising company he fostered is one of America's three biggest.* Its president is Stanley Resor. Its vice president is John Broadus Watson, author of "Homing and Related Activities of Birds." who applies to advertising his profound knowledge of behaviorism, plots shrewd campaigns for Fleischmann's Yeast, Pennsylvania R. R., Lux, Maxwell House Coffee...
...cadenced prose Author Roberts has written two substantial U. S. novels that have feeling and sound sense. Whether she wearied of her impeccable artistic performance; or whether moving to New York from her Kentucky mountains proved too kaleidoscopic; or whether the critic lives up to his proverbial reputation for obtuseness, Jingling in the Wind is utterly meaningless potpourri of pleasant enough bits of satire, glimpses of nature, young men in love. A 21st century substitute for Prometheus is Jeremy, rainmaker, who journeys to the rainmakers' convention. On the way the motorbus is stalled, and each passenger tells an inferior...