Word: dell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foto looks like Look.* Dell Publishing Co.'s feeler into the picture magazine field, Foto is billed as "the Candid Camera Magazine," launched as a 10? bimonthly. If successful, it will supplement Dell's lucrative Modern Screen, Radio Stars and Ballyhoo. Editor West F. Peterson, out of Illinois via the University of Wisconsin and its Daily Cardinal, ordered a press run of 400,000 for Foto's, first appearance. Readers got 66 pages in rotogravure of photographs intended to raise the reader's hair, hackles or eyebrows. Most appalling shot: the corpse of a New York...
Married. Lucy Estelle ("Dicky Dell") Doheny, 21, granddaughter & heiress of the late Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny, and Waldemann Van Cott Niven, 25, Los Angeles attorney; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...book of West Indian dialect poems about his native Jamaica. Claude McKay went to Tuskegee Institute, switched to Kansas State Agricultural College, quit to become a dining-car waiter. In 1918 tiny, roaring Frank Harris certified him a genius. More encouragement came from Max Eastman and Floyd Dell. McKay went to London to meet Shaw, who reminded him of "an evergreen plant grown indoors...an antelope...chinaware," Shaw asked: "Why didn't you choose pugilism instead of poetry? They talked about plays and cathedrals; when the War was mentioned, Shaw "let out a whinny...like a young colt...
Greenwood Memorial has two of the swimmers who captured first places in the dual meet with the Crimson last year. Dell then won the 200-yard backstroke, defeating Heskett and Munroe of Harvard, while Eloranta won the 100-yard free style, nosing out Mickay, the sprinter whom he will face again tonight...
...satire of rotund Art Young is gentler, his humor more pointed, and his following is a generation older and more devoted than Grosz's, but he too was tried for sedition during the War when the editors of the Masses (Art Young, John Reed, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman) went on trial for "obstructing the draft." Art Young fell asleep at the trial, did a self-caricature entitled Art Young on Trial for His Life which was later bid for by the prosecuting attorney. Born in Monroe, Wis. 70 years ago, Satirist Art Young has been sensitive to but never...