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...Dresser, "as everyone knows," is the author of "On the Banks of the Wabash," immortal theme song of Hoosierdom, and likely to burst forth wherever two or more loyal souls are gathered together in the faith...
...Indiana will rise to rebuke you for referring to Paul Dresser as author of "The Wabash Blues" (TIME...
...Later the Army world flyers flew along southern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands (westward, 1924), the Russian disguised bomber Land of the Soviets along the same route (eastward, 1929), Parker Dresser Cramer from New York to Nome (1929), Ross G. Hoyt from New York to Nome to British Columbia where he crashed...
Ernita, a clear-eyed Texan, went Bolshevik during the War, emigrated to Russia, where Communists disappointed her, but Communism kept her faith. "A girl of the Diana type," Albertine was Jersey City bred, but attained Park Avenue because her husband was a clever window dresser. Albertine took lovers, but was circumspect. Regina had a good job as superintendent of a Washington hospital: she got the morphine habit. No one knew how or where she died. Rella was a farmer's daughter, and just the right age. When her literary uncle-by-marriage came along, she fell in love with...
...Author. Theodore Dreiser's real name is Dresser. (His songwriting brother Paul, author of "The Wabash Blues," still calls himself Dresser.) Born in Indiana in 1871, he wrote for newspapers (Chicago Globe}, was traveling correspondent for St. Louis Globe-Democrat, edited Butterick Publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea). Fat-cheeked, loose-lipped, furrowed of brow, Author Dreiser looks like what he is: a puzzled brooder over the tragic inconsistencies of life. Other books: The "Genius," Chains, Jennie Gerhardt, Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy...