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...Including governors of seven states, 17 university presidents, Henry L. Stimson, Harold Stassen, Jim Farley, Joseph C. Grew, Banker A. P. Giannini, Author John P. Marquand, the Right Rev. William T. Manning (retired Episcopal Bishop of New York), ex-G.I. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (see PRESS), and Historian James Truslow Adams...
Died. Maxwell Evarts Perkins, 62, editor of Publishers Charles Scribner's Sons, discoverer and literary nurse of such notables as Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Erskine Caldwell, Ring Lardner, John P. Marquand; of pneumonia; in Stamford, Conn. In You Can't Go Home Again, the late Thomas Wolfe lovingly caricatured Good Friend Perkins as "Foxhall Edwards"; drew a Miltonic epitaph: "Oh guileful Fox, how innocent in guilefulness and in innocence how full of guile! How straight in cunning, and how cunning-straight, in all directions how strange-devious, in all strange-deviousness how direct! Too straight for crookedness...
...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...
...Late George Apley. Ronald Colman and other skilled make-believe Bostonians in a pleasant adaptation of J. P. Marquand's Back Bay satire (TIME, March...
...Late George Apley. Ronald Colman and other skilled make-believe Bostonians in a pleasant adaptation of J. P. Marquand's satire (TIME, March...