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Amber sons, Alice Adams won the 1919, 1922 Pulitzer prizes), he winters in Indianapolis, summers at Kennebunkport, Me., in a home well-known as "the house that Penrod built." About 1917 he began to go blind; in August, 1930 he became completely so. Now at last, after eight eye operations. Author Tarkington is able to see again the faces of the American types he knows by heart...
...scene of Mirthful Haven is Maine, where Tarkington has spent many a summer (at Kennebunkport) ; the principal characters are Maine natives. Villains of the piece are the "summer people." Edna Pelter is the pretty but declassee daughterof Long Harry, lobsterman and owner of a shack that summer visitors view as an eyesore and a disgrace. Visitors and villagers alike look down on the Pelters: the feeling is reciprocal. But the old Captain Embury, retired sailor, No. 1 citizen of Mirthful Haven, who could always make his voice heard above "the roarin' of the tem-pest," likes the Pelters, likes...
...first novel, Author Kahler is a well known short-story writer and has been at it for years. Tall, lean, pleasant-but-slightly-worried-looking, he lives in Princeton, N. J., where he went to college. He works hard, is good at archery, enjoys poker. Summers he spends at Kennebunkport, Me., with his great & good friend Tarking ton. He "denies bitterly" that either he or his only daughter Kingsley are to be found in the pages of Father Means Well. Other books: Babel, The East Wind...
...Kennebunkport...
...Events Contest, it was announced last night by Professor A. N. Holcombe '06, Chairman of the Harvard Committee. Wyzanski will now be the University's representative in the final examination of the contest which will be held on May 15. Honorable Mention was given John Goodchild Dow '27, of Kennebunkport...