Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that our infinite sense of loss in the Department of English is mingled with admiration for his superb achievement as a scholar, and with gratitude for his generosity as a colleague and a friend. It has been given to few to probe the secrets of the poet's heart as it has been given to him. We can give him only our thanks, admiration, and praise, but I believe that his greatest and most lasting tribute will come from those poets whose works he has illuminated for us all--Chaucer, Coleridge, and Keats...
...Heart of the North (Warner Bros.). The Arctic Queen is steaming up the Yukon River with a shipment of gold and furs. And then? Bandits in fur caps remove its cargo. And then? The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who keep their coats on even when paddling canoes, contrive to catch the bandits...
...Heart of the North, not to be confused with Spawn of the North (TIME, Sept. 5), Warner Bros, dumped 1,500 Ibs. of dye into the studio lake to make it blue enough to serve as a satisfactory Technicolor background for innumerable fights, canoe trips, duellos and hairbreadth escapes of a lively, oldfashioned, fir-tree melodrama. Typical shot: Dick Foran and Russell Simpson wrestling on the edge of a cliff, while Allen Jenkins watches from the underbrush...
Died. Gaston Bullock Means, 59, notorious national rascal, onetime Secret Service operator and private detective; of a heart attack; in Springfield, Mo., where he had been taken from Leavenworth Penitentiary for an operation. Born in North Carolina, Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate...
Died. Martin Egan, 66, onetime war correspondent, later for 25 years in charge of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s press relations; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle at Manila during the Spanish-American War. Later as Associated Press correspondent during the Russo-Japanese war he scored a notable beat on the siege of Port Arthur. In 1908 he became editor of the Manila Times; in 1913 became the Morgan pressagent, proving indispensable to Partner Thomas W. Lamont in dealings with China, to Partner Henry P. Davison in War-time administration...