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...WALLACE IRWIN, who gave the world of letters "Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum" and many other equally serious volumes, has come forward with a successfully sustained satire on the modern detective story, the dictatorial form of government, and tabloid journalism. Feeling that "in distance there is safety," Mr. Irwin affectionately dedicates his book to "Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler...
Into Churchill, Man., at sunset one evening, strode a young (24) adventurer named Dave Irwin. Blond, husky Adventurer Irwin was finishing a 2,600-mi. dog-team trip from Aklavik, on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. In 1931 he set out from Alaska to help Herdsman Andy Bahr drive 3.000 reindeer across Northern Alaska and the Mackenzie River Delta to Canada (TIME, Jan. 7).* Quarreling with other drivers two years ago, he packed up a sledge, mushed off eastward alone. By dint of catching fish bare-handed to feed himself and his dogs, he reached the North Magnetic Pole...
Herbert M. Irwin '37, of Port Washington, Long Island, was re-elected President of the Memorial Society at the dinner held Friday evening in Adams House. Morrison C. Haviland '37, of Glens Falls, N. Y. was elected Vice President, Wheeler Sammons, Jr. '37, of Chicago, III., Secretary, and Joseph S. Iseman '37, of New York City, Treasurer...
Chief of the colony will be Don L. Irwin, general manager of the newly formed Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. A lanky, pleasant Kansas State Agricultural College graduate, he was a successful Wyoming rancher until the Government sent him to head its Agricultural Experiment Station in Matanuska Valley three years ago. Of his Utopian project, Chief Irwin said last week: "Almost the first job will be to clear out the mosquitoes. They are the chief handicap...
...ponderous myopic sexagenarian lumberman named William Elbert Belcher. For 29 years Mr. Belcher has been modestly engaged in turning the slash pine of Bibb County, Ala. into merchantable lumber. The retreat was also from one of the most respected and uncompromising septuagenarians of the South, Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Birmingham, whose decisions are very rarely reversed by higher courts. Last October, the Government brought Lumberman Belcher to trial before Judge Grubb on charges of paying lower wages and working his men longer hours than NRA's lumber code allowed. Defendant Belcher readily admitted the facts but argued...