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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swiftness, Senator La Follette shifted from policemen to victims. From a doctor came testimony that total casualties, aside from the dead, were 40 wounded by bullets, some 60 beaten. Seven of the ten dead had been shot in the back. Mrs. Lupe Marshall, a 30-year-old, little, Mexican-born social worker at Chicago's Hull House, told how she had been clubbed, put in a patrol wagon with 16 other wounded, none of whom had had first-aid treatment...
...think there's been a mistake, you've sent a gout up to maternity"), 40 photographs (John D. Rockefeller Sr., nudes, still life, Mussolini holding his nose), seven color plates (Hogarth's The Graham Children, Correggio's Venus, Mercury and Cupid). Editor is Hungarian-born Stefan Lorant, capable but not popular in Fleet Street. He first made a name on the Münchner Illustrierte Presse, was tossed into jail for six months when Hitler came to power, wrote a book about it (I was Hitler's Prisoner), then built up Weekly Illustrated for Odhams...
Night and Day was issued as a weekly from freshly painted (cream interior, light-blue and black exterior) offices near London's Coliseum Theatre by the firm of Chatto & Windus under the editorial direction of five bright young men. Chief of these is John Hugo Edgar Marks, Borneo-born, Cambridge-educated, former film critic of the New Statesman and Nation. Biggest name among Night and Day contributors is Author Evelyn Waugh, as book critic...
...baby was born, was adopted by the grandparents and named Mary Joan Gibson. She died at the age of twelve days of bleeding at the navel. Her father went to Sing Sing; her mother married Walter Mitchell Schubert in 1936; her grandparents, dropped out of the Social Register, remained at "Tappancroft," their integrity and independence intact (TIME...
...Author-Kenneth Roberts. . . Down-Easter from way back, was born in Kennebunk, Me. in 1885, still spends his summers at Kennebunk Beach near his great & good friend Booth Tarkington, After graduating from Cornell (1908) he journalized on the Boston Post, Puck, Life. During the War he served as a captain in the Intelligence Section of the Siberian Expeditionary Force. For nine years after the Armistice he was roving correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, in which his stories are now usually serialized. With his wife and fox terrier, Roberts winters in a telephoneless Italian villa, works a heavy schedule...