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...Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, John Erskine, Finley Peter Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author of The Old Soak, said: "I like the man: his tone, his manner, his essential character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Votes Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Lloyd Derr Felton, Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene. From 1916 to 1919 he was at Johns Hopkins University when he was appointed an associate in the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Since 1992 he has been connected with the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Awards of Professorships for Coming Year Announced | 6/12/1928 | See Source »

...explaining he felt he was being a financial hindrance to her and his sister; wrote appointments of schoolmates as pallbearers; marched to the stage of the school auditorium, took out a revolver similar to one he had brandished lately in the school play, (Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers) and shot himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Denver | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...Morgan Derr Jr., 20, sophomore at the University of Rochester (N. Y.) classmate and friend of Student Rigby Wile, 16, who killed himself with a rifle on Jan. 2, last week felt ill, shot himself dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Suicides | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...champion these two years, was suddenly ousted by an "unknown," one Larry Nabholtz, of Lima, Ohio. Nabholtz nabbed "the Grinning Runt" at the 35th green. Bobby Cruickshank, of Shacka-maxon, N. J., shot 69 and 71 in his second round match, yet he, too, was ousted-by Ray Derr of the Lulu Temple Club, Philadelphia, after 37 terrific holes. Thereafter surprises ceased. Sleek, smiling "Walto" Hagen, of Manhattan, British open champion, and "Long Jim" Barnes of Pelham, N. Y., cruised steadily into the finals. "Walto," as in 1921, then cruised steadily past "Long Jim" to the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Professional Golf | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

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