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Married. Henry Louis Mencken, editor of American Mercury, utterer of exuberancies and abominations; and Sara Powell Haardt, Mercury contributor; at the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr in Baltimore...
...Henry Louis Mencken was speaking, nor Oswald Garrison Villard, but their local counterpart in San Francisco?Editor Edward Morphy of San Francisco's old conservative weekly Argonaut. Said he: "The Argonaut is opposed to blah and sobsister stuff. Blah seems to be the present standard of American newspapers." Also is the Argonaut opposed to Prohibition, reformers, the Klan, Radicals. It is for Capital Punishment; has small patience with labor unions; delights in baiting the bustle and flamboyance of Los Angeles...
Elected. Henry Louis Mencken, babbitt-baiting editor of the American Mercury: to honorary membership in the Kiwanis Club of Montgomery, Ala., hometown of Miss Sara Haardt whom he last fortnight engaged to marry...
Engaged. Henry Louis Mencken of Baltimore, 50 come Sept. 12, editor of the American Mercury; and a Miss Sara Powell Haardt, thirtyish, of Montgomery, Ala. and Baltimore, one of his contributors. Bachelor Mencken in the past on marriage...
...with its familiar cover design of a man and woman coyly greeting each other while a cupid and black devil played havoc with their hearts. Its most startling upheaval occurred in 1914, after an enforced change of owners. Eltinge F. Warner, publisher of Field & Stream was made publisher and Mencken & Nathan found themselves editors. Under that regime many a now-famed author (examples: James Joyce, Lord Dunsany) was given his first U. S. audience. Others who were early recognized, if not actually discovered by Mencken & Nathan's Smart Set: Ruth Suckow, Sherwood Anderson. Ben Hecht, Eugene Gladstone...