Word: booked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sirs: You give Carroll J. Swan the title of "Lieutenant." He is Lieutenant Colonel of the reserves and was a Captain in the War of the 26th Division. He wrote a book following the War entitled My Company. Swan is a graduate of Harvard '01-one of New England's leading advertising men. . . . J. M. SWEENEY...
...much biography." What biography he has includes the fact that his father, Jonathan Leonard, also writes (Back to Stay and The Meddlers); that Jonathan Jr. studied at schools public as well as private and underwent some tutoring before and during Harvard, whence he was graduated in 1925. He reviews books for metropolitan newspapers and The Saturday Review of Literature. In 1927 he was responsible for Ask Me Too, a juvenile version of the Ask Me Another book of educative questions-answers. Lately he returned to live at Sandwich, Mass., where he guards well the secret of his next book...
Another name for Maristan Chapman is Mrs. John Stanton Chapman. She, 34 next month, surprises native Tennesseeans often, since she looks and dresses almost as would a male. Her previous book, The Happy Mountain, sold 80,000 copies, was Literary Guilded...
...This book should sell well because of its title, format, anonymity, style, story. Newly rich and resenting one of Husband Peter's infidelities, Patricia committed one herself, after drinking. Some time after she told him of it Peter threw her through a glass door and looking cold and hard went away with the virtuous Hilda. His reasons for making the break...
Died. Winthrop Saltonstall Scudder, 83, of Manhattan and Cambridge, Mass., longtime art editor for Houghton Mifflin Co. (book publishers); in Manhattan. Mr. Scudder was an original member of the Oneida Football Club, first in the U. S., which played its first game on Boston Common in 1862* and was never beaten, never scored upon...