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Died. Clarence Budington Kelland, 82, tireless practitioner of the first basic plot (good guy wins), who in 61 years authored 10 million words chronicling the adventures of such homespuns as Scattergood Baines, Mark Tidd and Mr. Deeds, dabbled in Republican politics on the side; after a brief illness; in Scottsdale, Ariz...
...CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND, 73, Arizona Republican National Committeeman, irreconcilable old guardsman and prolific, bestselling author (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), in a letter published in the Arizona Republic...
DANGEROUS ANGEL (250 pp.)-Clarence Budington Kelland-Harper...
...Clarence Budington Kelland, 72, is a prominent U.S. author to whom U.S. literary and critical magazines pay no attention whatever. He is, in the language of book reviewers, a "slick man," a contriver of "adroit hokum," which is hopelessly "fast-moving" and unreclaimably "superficial." The good always wins, the boy always gets the girl, and they are married in a nice church ceremony-just after getting the deed to a nice piece of real estate-while a kindly old homespun philosopher stands snapping his galluses in the background...
...decide to start life anew together-"a boy and girl, simple, delighting each other, happy under cloudless skies." To keep the clouds away indefinitely they have-from Anneke's mining operations-a handsome financial profit. And so, after magazine rights, bookstore orders and reprint contracts, does durable Clarence Budington Kelland...