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Died. William Fairfield Whiting, 72 Holyoke, Mass. paper manufacturer, great friend and onetime (1928-29) Secretary of Commerce to Calvin Coolidge; after long illness; in Holyoke. At the 1920 Republican Convention Paperman Whiting voted Coolidge for President on all ten ballots, was instrumental in getting his friend the Vice-Presidential nomination...
Married. Clarence Duncan Chamberlin, 42, pilot on the second non-stop trans-atlantic flight (1927); and Louise Ashby, 29, daughter of Maine State Senator George F. Ashby; in Fort Fairfield...
...Illinois Candidate Borah forced Candidate Knox to fight, for the Chicago publisher could not stay out of the primary (April 14) of his home State. Senator Borah had two advantages in Illinois: 1) He was born on a farm near Fairfield 70 years ago; 2) He had indirect support from the Chicago Tribune which cannot see the publisher of the rival Daily News in the White House. But Publisher Knox has virtually a complete slate of 57 would-be convention delegates in the field, whereas Senator Borah has only twelve. Illinois also conducts a separate statewide Presidential preference vote which...
Women bring a quality to writing that men would have to go to the moon to find. At their worst, they are poor imitations of he-hacks; at their best they are in a class by themselves. Among English women writers, Rebecca West (Cecily Fairfield Andrews) has ranked creditably. As a journalist of parts, she has written criticism and comment that was some-times brilliant, always flashy; often sensible but always dogmatic. Her third novel, Harriet Hume, was a clever tour de force whose artificiality distracted attention from its able workmanship. Last week she published a book that swept...
...Armistice, Mr. Lashar issued an advertisement headed "The Honor in Our Discharge from the Service," said that the company was "poorer in pocketbook" on account of government contracts, that "there has been no taint of profiteering in our escutcheon." He built himself a million-dollar, 100-room residence at Fairfield, Conn., and the company, rapidly expanding, acquired Page Steel & Wire Co. and two small steel companies, sources of raw material...