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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. John Dos Passes, 33, author (Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer) playwright (Airways, Inc.), and a Miss Kate Smith; at Ellsworth, Me. Because to him the married state is not an awesome thing, he did not publicize his wedding, which happened some six weeks ago-he could not remember exactly when...
...been managing editor of the smartchart Vanity Fair, writes poetry and essays for the New Republic, liberal weekly. Several of his characters are supposedly derived from real people: Rita-Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay; Daisy-Florence Murray, onetime chorus girl. Others said to be represented: Novelist John Dos Passos; Princeton's genial, erudite Dean Christian Gauss...
Harvard Mays, 2b.; Sprague c.f.; Lupien, l.f.; Wood. s.s; Dos Beches r.f.; Delano. r.f.; Vogel. 3b; Finche, lb; Sheldon c.; Devens...
Packard v. Ford. If you possess or know any one who possesses a Dos-A-Dos (an electric automobile seating four per- sons, back to back, manufactured by the Pope Mfg. Co. in 1898), communicate with Henry Ford of Detroit, Mich., and he will no doubt smile with pleasure. Mr. Ford wants a Dos-A-Dos because his engineers believe that it was equipped with 'demountable & interchangeable wheels. The Packard Motor Car Co. has brought a patent infringement suit against the Ford Motor Co. because of the demountable & interchangeable wheels on the new Fords. Thus, a Dos-A-Dos might...
...Streets of Night" traces the development of two Harvard undergraduates from the time they entered college until their graduation. The manuscript, which is typewritten, was evidently written by Mr. Dos Passos during his travels as parts of it are dated from such remote places as Beirut, Syria. It is on 214 large sheets and contains many corrections in the author's autograph which show painstaking revision. If one judges from the other markings on the sheets, the printed book itself was set up from them...