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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harold Hersey refers to this incident in his book Pulpwood Editor...
...power of the famed Soong sisters of China has long been an open book. The influence of Magda Lupescu, mistress of Carol II of Rumania, is openly acknow edged in Rumania. But the role that Edda Ciano, née Mussolini, has played in the momentous recent realignments of European nations, has been half concealed by a regime which refuses to admit women in politics. The Official Life of Benito Mussolini, by Giorgio Pini, a translation of which was recently published in London, allots only three short sentences to Daughter Edda: 1) to report her birth; 2) to tell about...
...Chester Harvey Rowell writes a column on the editorial page that frequently disagrees with the editorial; shy, studious Arthur Eggleston writes his own opinions of labor problems (for which the Chronicle disclaims responsibility); Royce Brier writes a front-page column on foreign affairs; Joseph Henry Jackson conducts the best book column in California. Of San Francisco's four newspapers, the Chronicle is the only one which pays much attention to what goes on outside of California. Typical headline in seven-column blackface...
...Black River, the Salween. He never found it, but he traveled some 3,000 miles of unexplored shingle on the freezing-cold roof of the world, earned the Murchison Grant of the Royal Geographical Society for his pains. There were plenty of them. Salween is probably the cheerfullest book ever written of discomforts ranging from intense heat among blood-sucking leeches to intense cold and a face so cracked by snow-burn "it oozed all over like a roasting joint...
This week that teeming literature is celebrated in a 425-page volume called San Francisco's Literary Frontier. An absorbing book, it contains a big cast, centring on Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller. But at least a dozen of its 45 secondary and minor characters are as interesting if not as important as these. They shuttle in & out of a narrative brightened by anecdote, distinguished by excellent writing, weighted by a shrewd understanding of frontier social forces. The six-year work of a 37-year-old professor of English at San Diego State College, San Francisco...