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Died. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, 71, realistic novelist of the new South; of a heart attack; in Richmond. A spinster who never went to school, she wrote her first story at seven, her 20th and last novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning In This Our Life, at 68. Between the two she cultivated muscular ethics, a sinewy style, the flaccid enmity of the old South. To the1 impact of her novels, a critic testified: "Southern romance is dead. Ellen Glasgow has murdered...
Elected to fill the two remaining vacancies* in the American Academy of Arts and Letters (membership limited to 50) were Novelist-Playwright Thornton Niven Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Key, The Woman of Andros, Our Town) and Novelist Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (The Romantic Comedians, Barren Ground, Vein of Iron...
...Author. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, born, raised and resident in Richmond, Va., hotbed of Southern tradition, decided she would not be a romantic, sentimental Southern belle-lettriste. She announced: ''What the South needs now is?blood and irony." Plump, lively, slightly deaf, she finds life agreeable and amusing. Though she thought she could die of happiness if her first book was accepted, after her 17th was published she remarked: "I've never been happy and have not died." Authoress Glasgow lives in an old house in the heart of Richmond at No. i West Main Street, entertains there her friends...
...CLASS DAY COMMITTEE (Seven to be elected.) Richard Stewart Bowers Francis Kernan Kernan Jr. Standish Bradford James Jackson Lee Stanley Noel Brown James Edward Merrill Harrison Gardner Louis Rhodes Nichols Kenneth Noyes Hill Karl Slade Pfaffmann Clay Harvey Hollister Jr. Richard Cutts Storey Jr. Russell Sturgis Hubbard Jr. George Gholson Walker...
...York, N. Y.; William Edgar Crosby '24 of Newton; Mitchell Gratwick '22 of Linwood, N. Y.; Richard Robertson Higgins '22 of Winchester; Francis Sherburne Hill '24 of Brooline; Joseph Larocque Jr. '23 of Bernardsville, N. J.; John Morrison Martin '22 of Cambridge; George Owen Jr. '23 of Newton; George Gholson Walker '24 of Staten Island, N. Y.; and Joseph James Kennedy '22 of New Bedford...