Word: kelland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ARIZONA - Clarence Budington Kelland-Harper...
Gaunt-faced, peppery Clarence Budington Kelland is a leading professional in the slick-paper magazine school of fiction. Twice as ingenious as most of his rivals, he has two standard plots: 1) streamlined, wisecracking romances, in which a duffer outwises the wise guys, 2) yarns-mostly historical-in which all stops are pulled out to paean the American Way. Arizona, a Civil War yarn published last week, uses Plot...
Among noted Gruger men are light-handed, prolific Wallace Morgan and the immensely successful Arthur William ("Brownie") Brown. As illustrator for Tarkington, Kelland and other light fictioneers, popular, saturnine Artist Brown made a cool Wall Street million before it melted down in 1929. At 58 he says he is doing it again. Other illustrators like to kid Brown about his draftsmanship, but the laugh is on them. There is some quality in his clean-cut youths and pretty girls that fits the American Dream...
...American Boy's most famed fiction character is Marcus Aurelius Fortunatus Tidd, who first appeared in 1913 while his creator, Clarence Budington Kelland, was managing editor. A Mark Tidd serial is still running in the magazine. Mark Tidd...
Major Arthur L. Fletcher, a North Carolina National Guardsman, has the job of Wage & Hour enforcement. He looks like Author Clarence Budington Kelland's country-store keeper, Scattergood Baines, has a round, pink face, a vast capacity for calm, an equally vast distaste for employers who pay starvation wages. Of the hundreds of letters received by him up to last week, 104 were specific enough to be classed as complaints. Of these, 14 have been referred to the 24 field inspectors (one per State) already assigned to the field. As a Southerner who administered North Carolina's industrial...