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...July 1934 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch relieved its liberal chief editorial writer, Clark McAdams, of his writing job, kicked him upstairs to the executive desk of an associate editor. The following year Clark McAdams died. Many a friend of his believes that Editorialist McAdams' death was hastened by his sorrow, in the face of Franklin Roosevelt's promises and policies, at the more & more conservative editorial stand of the Post-Dispatch which has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Last September, the Post-Dispatch jumped the political fence outright, joined the majority of the nation...
...Souls, Darwin, The Quick & The Dead); after lingering illness; in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Eighth in lineal descent from Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony, he termed himself a "psychographer." Critics called him "the U. S. Lytton Strachey," rated him less urbane and epigrammatic but more profound. An essayist and editorialist (for the Boston Herald), he said: "My biographical work is laborious and hard. . . . But plays and novels! It's easy and fun to write them. . . . That's what . . . I've done year after year without much encouragement." Biographer Bradford, though sickly all his life, wrote several plays...
...also wish to be elevated to that dais, or do they admit that these people are slightly more important than they? If not, they had better begin at once to rear-range their ideas, because they are out of tune with the rest of mankind. I wonder if the editorialist realizes that in the English institutions after which these beautiful houses are modelled, it is the custom for the dais to be occupied by the men in authority? Or, by any chance, does our complainant feel embarrassed or ill at ease in the presence of those in evening dress...