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Samuel Sidney McClure, original muckraking publisher (McClure's Magazine, 1893-1914), won the Order of Merit of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for his past journalistic crusades. Now white-thatched, withered, 87, the onetime editor of Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Winston Churchill's father Randolph has been working for years on a book called The Coming of Freedom. Said National Institute President Arthur ("Mr. Tutt") Train: "The American people owe a great debt to this man, once famous, now almost forgotten." Said old-time Editor McClure (who will...
...Time (Warners) earnestly dramatizes the collision between a resistible force (liberalism) and a movable object (feudalism). The place: Poland, just before World War II. When Polish Aristocrat Paul Henreid tells his family he intends to marry British Commoner Ida Lupino, his mother drop's and breaks a cherished teacup. They marry anyhow, and by the time the Nazis invade Poland the wife has turned her idle husband into a man, his estate into a solvent farm, his ancestral home into a one-night playroom for the peasants-who are delighted to have become sharecroppers. A reactionary uncle...
...Ida B. Wise Smith, 72 and perky, national president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, testified that her organization represents "organized mother love" battling against the entrenched liquor czars. Further, said she, housewives are short of sugar because too much is being diverted to the breweries...
...Died. Ida Minerva Tarbell, 86, crusading journalist, onetime "Terror of the Trusts" (The History of the Standard Oil Company); of pneumonia; in Bridge port, Conn. Daughter of a Pennsylvania oilman driven to the wall by the Rocke fellers, onetime seminary teacher Ida Tarbell gained fame for herself and thousands of new readers for McClure's with her 1896 serialized Life of Lincoln. In 1902-04 she helped bust the oil trust with a series of 19 McClure's articles; they brought in a gusher of public resentment that flowed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which...
David Lichine, Rostov-born, Paris-trained alumnus of Ida Rubinstein's troupe and one of the few choreographers who is equally famed as a dancer of male leads. A rival of Massine, Lichine resembles him in his love for flamboyant spectacle (Fair at Sorochinsk, Francesca da Rimini) and sophisticated satire (Helen of Troy, Graduation Ball...