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Died. Perch H. Fitzgerald, 96, intimate and biographer of Charles Dickens, in London. Litterateur, painter, sculptor, he was founder of the famed "Boz Club" and a friend of Carlyle...
...Haldane, popular Cambridge biological litterateur, expressed (in picturesque terms) the well known fact that the strength of an organism is not constant with its bulk. Said he: "A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash . . . Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal...
...Prize winner (1917, for his play, Why Marry?), novelist and short-story writer of the same kindly school as his fellow Princetonian, Booth Tarkington, and his good friend Julian Street. Mr. Williams, a calm, beetle-browed gentleman who this week turned 54, has not the air of a professional litterateur. Rather does he seem an urbane, drily humorous gentleman of comfortable means and considerable social distinction. During his year's residence at Ann Arbor, he will be afforded ample leisure for his literary pursuits and a free hand to bring to the students, in any way he chooses...
Mistakes are costly, and the bigger the maker, the bigger the cost. Last May, The Saturday Evening Post published an article by one Meade Minnigerode, a young Manhattan litterateur. It was titled Rachel Jackson?An Informal Biography. In it the story of the wife of Andrew Jackson was told in a chatty manner, a manner similar to that in which Mr. Minnigerode had previously retailed in the Post the faults and foibles and personal characteristics of other characters in U. S. history? Aaron Burr and others...
Lunacharsky, Commissar of Education, artist, litterateur, usually spoken of as a mild-mannered moderate: "I believe the Russian people and their posterity will always acknowledge that the Red Terror was the best page in Soviet history...