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...schools, Richard Harrison began hopping bells in Detroit hotels. Stage struck, he went to a dramatic school for a short while, later made a precarious living by giving Shakespearean readings to Negro audiences in Canada. The next 40 years he spent as a dining car waiter on the Santa Fe running between Chicago and Los Angeles, as a police station handyman in Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly he made his headquarters around Haines Institute at Augusta...
...Santa Fe, Argentina, Pedro Candioti plunged into the Paraná River, started swimming 299 mi. to Buenos Aires. Eighty-seven and a half hours later, chilled, exhausted, deserted by the jazz band which had encouraged him most of the way, still 41 mi. from his goal, Pedro Candioti crawled out, claimed a record for endurance...
...constant technical experiments. In the Cairo American Express office seven years ago he met the former Women's Page Editor of the New York Sun, eloped with her within two weeks to Munich. He has spent six months in Bali, lives part of every year in Santa Fe. Of his painted abstractions last week he explained...
Married, Ernest Thompson Seton, 74, author, naturalist; and Mrs. Julia M. Buttree, 45, dean of the College of Indian Wisdom (Santa Fe) of which Mr. Seton is president; in El Paso, Tex. Last fortnight Mr. Seton was divorced by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton, whom he married...
...Harper ($2.50). The author won the 1933-34 Harper prize with The Fault of Angels, his novel of Rochester, N. Y. and the Eastman-endowed opera there. His new novel also moves in musical circles with the usual allotment of squabbling artists. A composer, who has settled in Santa Fe, New Mex. for his health, struggles to complete his symphony, but his wife has social ambitions that conflict with work...