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Died. Arthur Melancthon Hopkins, 71, Broadway producer-director (80 plays) for 37 years; in Manhattan. Ex-Reporter (Cleveland Press) Hopkins boosted into the limelight such famed personalities as John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Playwrights Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson and Philip Barry, the late Producer Brock Pemberton and Stage Designer Robert Edmond Jones...
...Melancthon Fowinkle returned from the Civil War wishing it had never ended. It had cost him his right arm. But it had given him, a baldish intellectual, years of equality with his dumb, knightly brother Fairfax, who had died in the Southern apogee of courage, under Pickett at Gettysburg. Dealing death, and living with it constantly, was the most heartening experience Melancthon had ever known...
...South was too cruel for Melancthon. The New South deflowered him on his first night home, in the person of Gaberiel, stripling daughter of Overseer Haley Sanders, from the Arkansas bottomlands. The New South was a heartbroken half-wilderness in which dogs "had become as pagan as wolves, tearing down stock in the open field"; in which anarchic marauders of both races assaulted Mel-ancthon's home and had their heads blown off or were hanged in too-cold blood. The New South was the Confederate deserter, Haley Sanders, with a calm about killing which shocked war-hard Melancthon...
...South was also Melancthon's riding with the Klan, or, retching, watching the castration of a Negro. It was Storekeeper Casper Fleming, who used Melancthon as a war-haloed decoy to swindle poor whites out of their land in a railroad hoax. It was his own conscience when, realizing the hoax and achingly needing money, he had to decide what to do. More dubiously, the New South was his brother's ice-hearted, erogenous widow Rachel, willing to back the hoax, eager to watch men die, dallying with a nincompoop Yankee officer whom Melancthon felt a need...
...first president, Jonathan Dickinson. His father, Rev. John Thomas Duffield, taught there for 56 years. His brother, Henry Green Duffield, was treasurer from 1901 to 1930. Than Ed Duffield no man appreciates more the remarkable group of trustees-including Moses Taylor Pyne, Bayard Henry, Charles Scribner, Cyrus McCormick, Melancthon W. Jacobus, Edward Sheldon, Henry B. Thompson-who built up the modern Princeton. None is more devoted than he to their belief that the genius of Princeton and its distinction lie and should remain in the undergraduate college rather than in the ramifications of a big university...