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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Henry Louis Mencken, editor of American Mercury, utterer of exuberancies and abominations; and Sara Powell Haardt, Mercury contributor; at the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr in Baltimore...
...Author. Robert M. Coates, 33, is a Yale graduate (1919), onetime left-wing litterateur (contributor to Broom, transition, Gargoyle). He is married to Sculptress Elsa Kirpal, lives in Manhattan, but is building a house, "almost single-handed," near Brewster, N. Y. Just over six feet tall, burly, shy, he has gentle blue eyes, a mop of red hair, his clothes flap on him. He throws an ice pick at a bull's-eye painted on a barn door with persistence and accuracy. He has written one other book: The Eater of Darkness. He works on the editorial staff...
...lieutenant governor, returned to journalism, made the Telegram a daily in 1922. In 1923 he was elected to Congress, sold control of the Telegram, though he still writes for it daily and receives an editorial salary. In Congress: most entertaining of representatives, but no clown, he is a cogent contributor to the work of the committees on Public Lands, Territories, Indian Affairs, Coinage, Weights & Measures. He calls himself a "Free Democrat." but is seldom not ''regular." He is friendly with Republican leaders like Speaker Longworth, Congressmen Tilson and Snell, whom he humorously denounces...
Lavine, University of California graduate, was first associated with the Examiner at the age of 14 as a contributor of school news. He became the paper's "big shot" reporter and investigator, known throughout the West for his sensational coups. It was Lavine who in 1922 found Clara Phillips ("Hammer Murderess") in Honduras after her escape from jail, and induced her to return to face a life sentence. It was Lavine who wrung a confession from Herb Wilson ("Preacher Mail Bandit") of two mail holdups and killing of a mail guard. Lavine it was who discovered the tell-tale bloodstains...
...apparent diffidence to his partial deafness. He drives a Chrysler car to and from Pasadena, where he lives with his wife, the former Margaret Watson, and their three children. A facile writer, he types his own copy for Aero Digest, for which he is radio editor and a monthly contributor...