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...Died. Meredith Nicholson, 81, last survivor of Indiana's literary Golden Age (his late contemporaries: James Whitcomb Riley, George Ade, Booth Tarking-ton), writer of once popular novels (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men); in Indianapolis. Romancer Nicholson, who felt that "you have got to get some brains into public office," turned from literature to politics, practiced what he preached as Indianapolis city councilman, diplomat (U.S Minister to Paraguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua...
...Secret of Life. Next day, Nobel Chemist Wendell Meredith Stanley, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical...
...paper shack at Meredith, N.H., three-year-old William Burns died last week of asphyxiation. A pathologist found black pepper in his lungs. Mrs. Evelyn Cote, 24-year-old mother of the boy-by her first marriage-explained to police that she had fed William "not more than a tablespoon" of pepper as punishment for wetting his bed. She was charged with second-degree manslaughter...
Poet-Novelist George Meredith had been an early admirer, but had been dismissed because his beard was too bristly. Other admirers or callers came & went-an old judge who claimed that he had loved 100 women, no more, no less; the great Lord Northcliffe, who usually passed at least part of each visit relaxing prone on the floor. "There's absolutely nothing to be surprised about in someone choosing to lie on his stomach," Marie Leighton explained. "The sooner you children learn to accept any eccentricity as though it were a commonplace, the better equipped you will...
Special officer Edward Gelnnon, dispatched to the snow country by Cambridge police headquarters to take part in the hunt, returned two nights ago with the opinion that the testimony of cafe employees in Meredith asserting they had served Gardiner on January 28, was the best clue to work...