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...Roberts is a born leader, is beloved and respected by all with whom he comes in contact. Through his services to the Government he has come to be well-known in California, Wyoming, Denver, Washington, D. C., and of course in Philadelphia, where he is the leading member of the Bar, and a respected and honored citizen...
Julie Pappan had an Indian allotment near Topeka and upon it Charles Curtis was born, nearly 68 years ago.* His grandfather Louis Pappan, was a French trader. His father, of old New England stock, had roamed out to Kansas in 1856 and returned there after becoming a captain in the Civil War. While his father was away at war, small Charles Curtis lived with his Grandmother Pappan...
...George Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio. In 1903 he was a lanky, nervous boy who played right forward on the basketball five and shortstop on the baseball nine at Ohio State University. Even after he came to Manhattan to be a painter, he often paid for dinner or theatre seats by playing professional ball over the weekends. He was interested in looking at people and at things so that he could make pictures of them. For 20 years he made pictures, mostly of people doing things very intently. Then, in 1925, he died...
THAT MAN HEINE?Lewis Browne?Macmillan ($3). Heinrich Heine, probably Germany's greatest lyric poet, was born in the ghetto of Dusseldorf on the Rhine. Tortured at school by little boys who aped the cruelties of their elders, he would sit in his uncle's library for long afternoons, the cry of the dark streets a far tumult, while the words that he read stirred a music in his mind. He grew up vain, erratic and melancholy, visited by visions of a strange beauty with which he informed his gay or bitter verses. As he waited for the death that...
...Author. Martha Ostenso was born in Norway, brought to Winnipeg at the age of 3, to Brooklyn at 20, when she began writing. A little known book of verse, the prize-winning Wild Geese and The Dark Dawn are her last five years' productions. She lives and writes now, secluded in an old house on the New Jersey Palisades, makes yearly pilgrimages to Minnesota for family reunions and for material...