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...publishing award open to aspiring authors is the fat old Atlantic Monthly's annual $10,000 prize. First and most famed beneficiary was Canada's Mazo de la Roche, whose Jalna won in 1927. Last week another woman writer was similarly enriched when Mrs. Winifred Mayne Van Etten, 34, of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, received the 1936 Atlantic prize for a novel called I Am the Fox, which the Atlantic Monthly Press will issue in August...
Like many another U. S. literary prizewinner, slender little Mrs. Van Etten had done no previous professional writing, turned out a regional story as her first big job. After winning an M.A. at Columbia in 1928, Mrs. Van Etten returned to Mt. Vernon to teach at Cornell College, where she had been graduated three years before, learned about her native State by helping a county nurse make a survey of rural bathing habits. She began I Am the Fox after arguing with her husband about whether foxes object to being hunted, finished it because of the "relentless goading and browbeating...
When told she had won, Mrs. Van Etten jiggled the cigaret lighter on her car, burned her thumb. Planning to save part of the $10,000, she remarked, "I don't suppose it would be possible to repeat right away on a thing like this," went to work on a second novel...
...doctors will attend that annual convention. But only 172 members, delegates for the 101,754 A. M. A. members, will have anything authoritative to say, and that only between the authoritative gavel hangings of the Speaker of the House of Delegates, 70-year-old Dr. Nathan Bristol Van Etten of The Bronx...
Longtime predecessor of Dr. Van Etten as Speaker of the A. M. A. House of Delegates was Dr. Frederick Cook Warnshuis. Disaffection among A. M. A. delegates and officers plus his own ill health cost Dr. Warnshuis his job. When he took the secretaryship of the California Medical Association, A. M. A. headquarters in Chicago expected him to control that State's alarming tendency toward socialized medicine. But Dr. Warnshuis was unable to prevail against Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey, pugnacious chief surgeon of Southern Pacific Railroad, who bosses the politicians who control the practice of medicine in California. Results...