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...Eugene Gant...
Scene, as well as subject, of course, is the U. S. Time-scheme will run from 1791 to 1933; the first two volumes cover 1884-1925, the last will go back to an earlier beginning. Readers of Look Homeward, Angel will remember its wildly sensuous account of the Gant family. In Of Time and the River Author Wolfe picks up his story, continues his method: he flays real life until the skin is off it and the blood comes. The skin-narrative can be shortly told. Eugene Gant, youngest of his family, at 19 leaves his Southern home and goes...
...Author. Thomas Clayton Wolfe's career closely parallels that of his hero, Eugene Gant. Born in Asheville, N. C. in 1900, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at 19, then took an M.A. at Harvard, where he studied under the late Professor George Pierce Baker in his famed 47 Workshop. After traveling and studying in Europe he got a job as instructor in the English department at New York University. Five years ago he resigned to devote himself to his magnum opus, went to Europe again on a Guggenheim Fellowship. An omnivorous reader, he says...
...Frederick Zook, son of Douglas and Helen Follenius Zook. In 1902 George Zook entered the University of Kansas, carrying his spare clothing in a shoe box. He worked his way through by driving a hearse. He made Phi Kappa Phi. Five years after graduating he married a classmate, Susie Gant. Specializing in modern European history, George Zook became a fellow at Kansas, an assistant at Cornell, an instructor at Pennsylvania State College, then an assistant professor, then an associate professor, then a full professor. From 1920 to 1925 he was chief of the division of higher education...
Next week at Atlantic City will convene the U. S. Chamber of Commerce to discuss the state of industry. Ready for its consideration was a carefully prepared report against increased Federal taxes, extrava- gant public building programs, application of all the sinking fund allotment and foreign interest payments to public debt retirement. This meeting Michigan's millionaire Senator Couzens last week viewed with loud alarm. In a sarcastic statement he declared that the business men meeting in the "Rose Rooms" or the "Pompeian Rooms" of Atlantic City hotels would doubtless resolve against any interference with their affairs...