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...fourth year, he deserted college to become janitor for a socialistic Utopia called Helicon Hall which had just been founded in New Jersey by Upton Sinclair, radical novelist. Poor, Sinclair Lewis lived by writing children's verse and squib jokes for magazines until he obtained an assistant editorship on the now defunct monthly Transatlantic Tales. He left that position to seek another in the building of the Panama Canal but, failing that, returned obscurely to Yale for his degree. He became a newsgatherer first in New Haven, later elsewhere. But in streetcars and on commuting trains he appeased something...
...town, Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross reflected that his political baptism in the name of the Brown Derby was by far the most exciting thing that had occurred to him since 1916, when he was appointed Dean of the Yale Graduate School, a position which he resigned (but not his editorship of the Yale Review) last summer upon being nominated for high public office...
...editorship of Life has passed most unobtrusively (no editorial massed-head has been printed for 21 weeks) to lean, black-moustached Bolton Mallory, onetime reporter, advertising man, instructor of English at Princeton University. Editor Mallory succeeds famed Norman Hume Anthony, who, with Phil Rosa (who assisted him when he was editor of Judge, went with him to Life) departed four months ago. Editor Mallory strives to make Life less "funny," smarter, of greater topical interest...
...unmarried, onetime (1914-16) professor of economics at the University of Richmond, has been State Historian of Virginia since 1927. Rutherford B. Hayes is the first of a series on political leaders, from the time of Andrew Johnson to Herbert Hoover, which Publishers Dodd, Mead will issue, under the editorship of youthful Historian Allan Nevins. Other books by Biographer Eckenrode: History of Virginia During the Reconstruction. Life of Nathan B. Forrest, Jefferson Davis, President of the South...
Your recent references to A. R. Orage have greatly interested admirers of his trenchant critical pen in his old New Age days. One of the high spots of his editorship of that weekly was the sponsoring and of the the forcing Douglas "Social Credit Movement" and the forcing into spectacular journalistic combat of the famous economic " A plus B" Theorem. This latter declares that the total purchasing power of the community only secured by way of wages, salaries and dividends, is, under the present cost-accounting system, insufficient to buy back the total products of industry...