Word: chautauquas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eared, sardonic lowan of 42, Harvard cum laude Author Duncan spent ten years on Gus the Great and was nearly broke much of the time. An itinerant writer, teacher and Chautauqua actor, he is the author of three previous novels, all poor sellers. He retired to a trailer to finish Gus the Great, wandering through the West and Southwest. When the money ran low, Duncan hacked out short stories on a 1924 Corona; his wife, Actea, took a secretarial job. The Duncans' first purchase with their new riches: a shiny new Chrysler convertible...
Died. Mina Miller Edison, 82, widow (second wife) of Thomas A. Edison; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. She was a noted supporter of the G.O.P. (but not during Democratic son Charles Edison's successful campaign for governor of New Jersey), of the Chautauqua Institution (cofounder: her father, Lewis Miller), and of the temperance movement...
Married. Dr. Howard Hanson, 49, Pulitzer Prizewinning conductor-composer (Symphony No. 4, Opus 34, Merry Mount), director of the Eastman School of Music, longtime cymbal-dasher for U.S. composers; and Margaret Elizabeth Nelson, 31, Pittsburgh Junior Leaguer; both for the first time; at Chautauqua...
Last week Iconoclast Johnson, now 70, retired. His successor-"a man after my own heart"-is another farm boy: lean, 49-year-old Brynjolf Jacob (Bryn J. for short) Hovde (rhymes with loved a). Bryn J. has, among other things, toured ,the Chautauqua lecture circuit, taught at the University of Pittsburgh-where he got into more than one ruckus because his politics were to the left of the trustees' -and run the State Department's Division of Cultural Cooperation. Says he: "I like to think of a university as a storm center. I like people to take...
...Republican Joe R. ("Holy Joe") Hanley, 67, ex-jockey, ex-Chautauqua lecturer, ex-Methodist-Episcopal preacher, has served for 17 years as a legislator from Perry, N.Y. (pop. 4,468). Candidate Hanley sidled into his campaign with a mighty shove from Dewey's potent state machine. Said he: "Tom Dewey has said he is not a candidate [for President] . . . I have no reason to doubt his word. . . . If such a thing does happen, however, it is very vital that you have a Republican to go in there...