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...feeding into the Post the biggest of the nation's bylines, Lorimer made it the biggest nickel's worth on the market. Contributors ranged from Jack London, Rex Beach, Irvin Cobb and Ring Lardner to such post-World War I stars as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clarence Budington Kelland, Katharine Brush and J. P. Marquand. What they gave the Post was not always their best, but it was their slickest, and it was good enough to push circulation beyond...
...happy GOPsters heaved up from the table and packed their bags for the trip home, they heard some words of caution from caustic old author-politico Clarence Budington Kelland: "What this party's got to do is get in there and earn the victory it won at the polls...
...cities sprang to their files of politicians, Legionnaires, churchmen and clubwomen who can always be counted on to say the right thing. They were asked if they liked "filthy books." They didn't. Neither did such writers as Faith Baldwin (Men Are Such Fools') and Clarence Buddington Kelland (The Little Moment of Happiness), whose opinions were splashed across Page One. Next came front-page editorials demanding that erring novelists and their publishers of "best-smellers" be brought to law. Only Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County was mentioned specifically; but there were also cracks at "Forever...
...down to this: we don't want a postwar world full of misery and unemployment, culminating 20 or 25 years from now in a third World War. And my friends and I definitely do not believe that the kind of negative statesmanship displayed by Spangler and C. Budington Kelland and almost the whole Republican Party is a guarantee of their ability to try and provide the kind of good world we feel entitled to after what we have gone through in two campaigns so far, and this thing isn't over yet by a damn sight...
...resolutions committee was headed by pugnacious Fictioneer Clarence Budington Kelland, who had traveled all the way from his home at Port Washington, N.Y., to assume his place as National Committeeman from Arizona (where he has a summer home). When Bud Kelland's committee got through with Fred Baker's proposal, all that was left was a one-sentence resolution recommending the admission of Alaska as the 49th State...