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...Barry charges are puzzling. I was present at a dinner party once where Mr. Irvin S. Cobb ventured to assert that he could write a successful novel in the Harold Bell Wright manner. I heard Mr. Cobb admit later that he had been unable to bring off a single chapter. He found that he could not make his characters talk or deport themselves in the stilted style of the Wright heroes and heroines...
...Governor Murray issued his shut-down order, he called in Cicero Irvin Murray, his second cousin and oil representative, commissioned him a lieutenant-colonel in the Oklahoma guard, sent him forth in command of the oil field troops. No military man, Lieut.-Colonel Murray was ably assisted by Major Abe Herskowitz. About 200 youngsters in khaki made up their military force. Major Herskowitz, in a final "fight talk" at their armory, told them: "Now, boys, you're going on a bivouac. Don't forget to keep your rifles clean." At the Oklahoma City field Lieut.-Colonel Murray picked...
...Garfield sons: Harry Augustus, now president of Williams College; James Rudolph, one-time Roosevelt secretary of the Interior; Abram, Cleveland architect; Irvin McDowell, Boston lawyer. All are living...
Corpulent Author Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb complained: "Why can't men wear linens, silks or other summer-weight fabrics? . . . Remember the pores, for they are with us always...
...Tokyo a Mrs. Irvin H. Correll, 80-year-old U. S. Missionary, related that in the late 19th Century she and her husband had encountered in Nagasaki a Japanese teahouse girl named Cho-San (Butterfly), who told how she had been betrayed by a Russian officer. Some years afterward, said Mrs. Correll, she was in Philadelphia and told the story to her lawyer brother, the late John Luther Long. He sat up all that night. At breakfast he showed his sister a completed manuscript of a story called Madame Butterfly, with the Russian changed to U. S. officer...