Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a story, for the exact truth of which, however the Vagabond cannot youth, told of an employee in one of Mr. Ford's automobile factories who on his death-bed was asked to give his idea of paradise. It had been this worthy man's occupation to give the second from the last turn to the last bolt on the chasis as they moved past him, his fellow worker standing beside him putting the finishing touch to the product. Now as he lay dying he could think of but one supreme desire, but one thing which...
...Ford's surname was originally Hueffer, but he changed it during the war because of his dislike for the German name. In the war, he served in the aviation, and was both wounded and gassed...
Apart from his lecturing, Mr. Ford has been active since his arrival in a literary way. He is writing a book on the United States to be entitled "America Is Not New York", and has also been writing a series of articles for "Books", the literary supplement of the "New York Sunday Herald-Tribune". He recently published an article on "American Cookery," which appeared in Harper's Magazine...
...Ford is particularly known for the assistance which he gives to young, unknown authors, who are unable to find publishers. As editor of the English Review, he constantly sought out and championed unknown talent. In the Review, he first published works of D. H. Lawrence and Ezra Pound, who have since become well known in the literary world...
...Ford lives in Paris where he is the center of the American literary colony. In the summer he lives at Avig-non on an island in the Rhone...