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Charles H. Markham, 65, for 16 years president of the Illinois Central, had a new position made to order for him last week-Chairman of the Board of Directors. He had been ill for four months and his associates, "desiring to preserve his health and his services for the I. C.," voted Lawrence Aloysius Downs, now head of the Central of Georgia Railroad, to succeed him as president...
...heavy man, mentally and physically, his particular talent is a blunt, wholehearted affability which endears him to all members of a profession in which this gift is the norm of social intercourse. "Handling men," he has said, "is largely a matter of getting them to like you." Charles Markham has said the same thing; Stuyvesant Fish said it too in the days when he was president of the Illinois Central. Presidents Fish, Markham, Downs-successively they built their lives into a railroad...
...before she is 18 years old, I don't know what I shall do." Thus the mother of Brooklyn's prodigious 12-year-old. whose poetic flights since the age of nine (The Janitor's Boy, Lava Lane)) have floored the pundits, made good Poet Erwin Markham grumble into his beard (TIME, Nov. 23, MISCELLANY) and won her an invitation to join the Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers (Poet Thomas Hardy, President), the first invitation to any American since that other, rubicund Brooklynite, Walt Whitman...
...then, did he think they had been written? That was what reporters wanted to know. Poet Markham winked. He expressed his confidence in the facility of Louis Untermeyer, of William Rose Benet, of Edna St. Vincent Millay, of other poets who dine together from time to time, all sitting around a table in a Manhattan grill while the elbows of the knowing onlookers dig the ribs of the innocent ones and murmurs float above the clatter of the table d'hôte: "There's Oontermeyer!" "There's Bennett!" One afternoon, after the coffee, suggested Poet Markham...
Said her father: "We have the doddering Markham with nothing to do but attack a little poetess he has never seen. . . . Libel claims will be instituted if anyone goes beyond...