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...Last week in Manhattan a group of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Harry Elmer Barnes, Ben Hecht, Booth Tarkington, Edgar Lee Masters, John Cowper Powys, Tiffany Thayer, Harry Leon Wilson), formed a Fortean Society to create wider interest in the work of Charles Fort, author of The Book of the Damned, New Lands (out of print), Lo! (Claude Kendall, Publisher). For 26 years Author Fort has collected phenomena which Science has been unable to explain. He & his friends believe that modern knowledge must be freed of the prejudices of Science...
...Duchess of Berwick Jane Mast Mrs. Erlynne Clara Butler Lord Augustus Lorton Carleton Green 1G Mrs. Charles Dumby C. L. Daugherty 1G Mr. Hopper - Fred Lewis Mr. Cecil Graham I. C. Martin '34 Lady Plimdale Susan Field Lord Plimdale H. R. Herrmann '32 Mrs. Cowper-Cowper Barbara Wortheim Lady Jedburgh Emmeline Hill Lady Agatha Carlysle Mary Emmons Mr. Guy Berkeley W. M. Kilcullen '34 Miss. Dorothy Graham Louise Smith Lady Royston Ruth Pfeifer Lady Stutfield Hester Blatt Rosalie Christine Lanningan
...discoverer of vitamin E; Professor Charles Atwood Kofoid, celebrated zoölogist, Professor Robert Heinrich Lowie., onetime (1913-21) curator of the American Museum of Natural History; Professor Gilbert Newton Lewis, whose theory of Time-Past and Time-Future may win him the Nobel Prize (TIME, April 28) ; Professor Andrew Cowper Lawson, international geologist, onetime (1914-18) dean of the College of Mining. For his good humor as well as his capabilities, dear to the heart of many a Californian is Professor Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley, pedagog and poetaster ? with whom Governor Clement Calhoun Young once collaborated on a text...
...holders of Harvard degrees, have also been appointed, and will carry out certain projects: Dr. N. C. Hannay, M.A. and Ph.D., 1919, professor of English Language and Literature at the Boston University School of Religious Education and Social Service, will work on the preparation of a life of William Cowper and a collected annotated edition of all known letters of the poet collated with the originals...
Author Theodore Francis Powys, 54, is one of three brothers (John Cowper, 57; Llewellyn, 45), all writers, all married, all fond of walking, all clergyman's sons. When some of the Powys's were living in Manhattan a few years ago, Critic Paul Rosenfeld went to call. Said he afterwards : "What a relief to find literary people who have faces!" Author Theodore Francis likes winter weather, prefers villages to live in, believes in monotony. Other books: Fables, An Interpretation of Genesis, Mr. Weston's Good Wine, The House with the Echo...