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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Logan Pearsall Smith's autobiography, written aboard Edith Wharton's yacht, is eloquent, charming, but hardly exemplary. Descended from a family of fashionable Philadelphia Quakers, little Logan grew up in surroundings at once prosperous and zealously religious. His father was both an executive in the family glass factory, and a famed Quaker revivalist, as successful on manorial lawns in England (until he excited too much ecstasy in female converts) as in suburban camp meetings. His mother, an even more effective stirrer-upper, became known as "the Angel of the Churches...
...Edith Jarvis Alden -whose father and two brothers were railroad men-was employed by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. to sell Liberty Bonds to employes. While peddling bonds she learned shorthand, after the War stayed on with the railroad as a stenographer. Last week the directors of Burlington, now fifth largest U. S. railroad (in revenue), gathered at No. 1 Wall Street, Manhattan, made Mrs. Alden secretary and assistant treasurer. She is the first woman ever elected to a high executive position in a major U. S. railroad. Last week, as she moved into her new office, her first...
...BUCCANEERS-Edith Wharton- Appleton-Century...
Death last year ended Edith Wharton's work on a novel which might have been her masterpiece. She had written 29 chapters of a book apparently planned to run to about 35 chapters. The story had reached its climax; the characters were at a moment in their careers when they were compelled to make irrevocable decisions. While Mrs. Wharton left notes suggesting how she intended to end the novel, she gave no hint of how she intended to solve its moral and esthetic problems. Last week her literary executor, Gaillard Lapsley,* offered The Buccaneers as a novel complete...
...magazine: Crime Detective for October; in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. The banners: Hennepin County Attorney Ed Goff and Ramsey County Attorney Michael Kinkead. Authority: State "anti-defamatory" statute protecting the mem ory of dead men. Reason: an article, "Murder in Minneapolis," by Edith Liggett, widow of crusading Editor Walter W. Liggett, murdered in Minneapolis Dec. 9, 1935, in which the late Governor Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota is attacked. Also attacked by Mrs. Liggett: County Attorney Goff, now running for reelection, and other Minneapolis politicians. Widow Liggett, 37, now lives in Manhattan, supports her son and daughter by writing...