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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born in Nebraska, Congregationalist George Dern migrated to Utah, made friends with his Mormon neighbors, though he never joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints. He plugged and profited at mining and engineering, served two terms as Utah's Democratic Governor, was spotted by Franklin Roosevelt as a Cabinet possibility at a Governors' Conference six years ago (TIME, July 14, 1930). As the civilian head of the Army, he kept well in the background, left the service pretty much to its professionals...
Disclaiming any backers, Syria-born Mr. Bourjaily told the trade Mid-Week Pictorial would henceforth be administered by a corporation composed of himself, his wife and lawyer. Managing Editor would be Dr. Franz Hollering, onetime editor of the Berlin B-Z am Mittag. Editorial headquarters were to be in a remodeled five-story Manhattan brownstone. Predicted Publisher Bourjaily: "Our approach will be that of a newspicture magazine supplementing the daily and Sunday paper and trying to interpret news rather than report...
...Born. To Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey, 41; and Mrs. Hannah Williams Dempsey, 25, onetime musicomedienne: a second daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. 9 oz. Name: Barbara Judith...
...gifted free-verse _ poets who became prominent at about the same time were widely hailed as among the most original spirits in the emerging group of Midwestern writers. Two more dissimilar talents have seldom been found in the same school. Edgar Lee Masters was a gruff, hardbitten, Kansas-born lawyer whose poems were bitter epitaphs on the wasted lives of a small town. Carl Sandburg, cheerful, intuitive, sentimental, had worked as a porter in a barber shop, sceneshifter in a theatre, truck-handler in a brickyard, a dishwasher, harvest hand, Social-Democratic Party organizer, newspaperman. As Edgar Lee Masters followed...
...South Seas. Vigorous, informative, complacent, he discourses with equal animation on the history and treatment of leprosy, on his experiences in swimming in shark-infested waters, his friendship with the Prince of Wales, his meeting with King Humbert of Italy his kind trickery in disposing of 26 healtny children born of leprous parents...