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...Author. Sherwood Anderson, self-made writer, might have been a self-made tycoon. From handicapped beginnings as a poor boy in Camden, Ohio he rose through little schooling and many jobs to be manager of a paint factory. But the problems of industrialism preyed on his mind. One day, halfway through dictating a letter, he blurted out .to his stenographer: "I am walking in the bed of a river," clapped on his hat and walked out. never to return. Through his artist brother, Karl, he met the "Chicago group" of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Carl Sandburg...
...expense on a minimum schedule of five trips a year for five years. Mr. Franklin was willing to keep this floating elephant and send her on seven circuits a year to Southampton for five years. Both offers provided for continuing work on the two new vessels abuilding at Camden, N. J. and for their eventual operation in transatlantic service under the U. S. flag...
...writing, my dear Gosse, would be improved by idiom.'' Says Biographer Charteris: "Gosse . . . was deeply offended, and many explanations were necessary to avert the danger which menaced a friendship of forty years." An admirer of Walt Whitman, Gosse visited the U. S. to lecture, called at Camden, N. J., and spent a friendly hour with the barbaric yawper...
...Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge cabled to Camden, N. J. for fresh asparagus. Two crates were promptly shipped to him on S. S. Ile de France...
...ramshackle Negro cabin near Camden, S. C.. is a room papered with TIME covers...