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...Hamilton Holt, beetle-browed onetime editor of the Independent, became president of Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. in 1925 and has since made it noted, by some estimates, for fuddling eccentricity, and by others, for pleasant liberality. Last week President Holt was in a squabble and Liberalism was the issue. He had ousted two professors, caused a third to resign. He was easing at least four others out. Two students resigned and others were vowing nevermore to return to Rollins College...
CALL OUT THE FLYING SQUAD-Henry Holt-Crime Club ($2). Inspector Silver, investigating a country murder, encounters Scotland Yard's pet criminal...
...SPOKE LAST?-John V. Turner- Holt ($2). Compleat Angler Petrie fishes from each of six suspects his reason for murder...
Born on a Nebraska farm, George Dern went to the University of Nebraska, played on its championship football team, once had his pants torn completely off in a tackle. Migrating to Utah, he got a job as bookkeeper with a gold mine, learned engineering, helped to invent the Holt-Dern ore roaster. A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, is today one of Utah's wealthier citizens. As a progressive Democrat, he was elected Governor in 1924, re-elected in 1928. A Congregationalist, he gets on well with the Mormons. His favorite parlor game is "Murder." Once...
...young man named Joseph Ames Mitchell, who had $10,000 and could draw pictures, went to his good friend Henry Holt, the book publisher, and asked help in publishing a humorous magazine. Publisher Holt demurred, advised his young friend to forget it. But Artist Mitchell, who had no business training or experience, was determined. With his $10,000 he launched the magazine himself, called it Life. Publisher Holt dubbed the first issue "Short Life." good-naturedly bought a full-page advertisement. This week the staff of 'Life celebrated the soth anniversary of the day-Jan. 4. 1883- when...