Word: authority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elmo's Author...
...Robin Lampson, author of the recently published life of General William Gorgas entitled Death Loses a Pair of Wings, describes in a recent issue of the California Monthly (alumni magazine) his phenomenal good fortune in receiving 528 responses to a letter published in TIME, in which he requested readers who had information on General Gorgas to communicate with...
...game for another try? ... Nature of my research: the life and works of Augusta Evans Wilson, author of St. Elmo, a best-seller for a half century. I am interested in the following kinds of material: letters by and to Mrs. Wilson, authentic anecdotes about her life, the names and dates of newspapers and magazines containing information about her and her books, signed and unsigned magazine articles by Mrs. Wilson, and any suggestions which might reasonably lead to information about this author...
Sued for Divorce. Lionel Hallam Lord Tennyson, 49, cricketing grandson of Poet Alfred Tennyson and author of From Verse to Worse; by Lady Tennyson, 35; in Redwood City, Calif. Grounds: "grievous mental suffering...
Natural Sham. A typical compilation of 1939 magazine-verse is Sara Henderson Hay's This My Letter. Its author herself is typical of the many Americans who are harassed by an almost total lack of disadvantages. She has: a genteel Southern education, a husband (Raymond Holden, verse-writing novelist and Book-of-the-Month Club editor), an imaginary small son (who, in This My Letter, is good for 14 sonnets), a home in the metropolis (with a farm in the offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree...