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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...
...escaped from this environment when his father grew prosperous in the building business. He attended Columbia University, whence he graduated to literary and radical circles in Greenwich Village. Deeply influenced by Max Eastman and Floyd Dell. Freeman was a Socialist during the War, supported the action of Columbia's Historian Charles Beard, who resigned in protest against the expulsion of pacifist professors. Working as a foreign correspondent in Paris and London after the War, Freeman covered the crash of the ZR-2, worked under Floyd Gibbons, conducted a long international correspondence on political and literary matters with...