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...first five to appear on the show back in 1940 are fairly typical of the group as a whole. Charles Schwartz, now 25, graduate cum laude from Harvard Law School, worked for a firm of Manhattan attorneys, returns to Harvard this fall on a teaching fellowship. Van Dyke Tiers, also 25, earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Chicago, is currently in the research department of the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. Mary Ann Anderson, 26, won a scholarship at Mundelein College, writes advertising copy for a Chicago drug company and teaches English and composition in the evenings...
...themselves in the lighter fields as well. Phillip Freneau 1771, the poet of the Revolution, called Princeton home for four years. Following in his literary pen splatterings have been Booth Tarkington '93, creator of Penrod and author of "Seventeen," an adaptation of which is now on Broadway, Henry van Dyke '73, Eugene O'Neill '10, father of modern American drama, James Ramsey Ullman '29, author of "The White Tower," and F. Scott Fitzgerald...
...Agriculture Department, guardian of the nation's farmers and cop on the beat of commodity speculation, had sworn testimony to the effect that a speculating combine-including some Government officials-had been formed to corner commodity markets. Agriculture's Commodity Exchange Authority got its evidence from Dyke Cullum, a speculator whose accounts had been manipulated. Under oath, Cullum told of being invited to join the group by a man who promised the connivance of Government officials with access to advance information on Government buying plans...
More than such a clear-cut reward, the Oklahoman's reporters treasured a note sent by one of the redeemed-property owners to Reporter Van Dyke. "Congratulations on your nerve and efforts to expose this filthy tax resale. Thank God for a real heman, fair and honest...
Mystery Man. The more the Oklahoman and Times dug, the worse it smelled. The Oklahoman's court reporter, Ray Parr, teamed up with Van Dyke and Timesman Henry Burchfiel to sift through a 20-year mountain of records. They soon noticed that a "Ted Smith" had bought much of the tax-sale land, though nobody in town knew any real-estate man named Ted Smith. When the reporters checked up on notaries who had witnessed "Ted Smith's" signature, they flushed a well-to-do printing-company executive named W. C. Bonney. He admitted he had used...