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...Author. Theodore Dreiser's real name is Dresser. (His songwriting brother Paul, author of "The Wabash Blues," still calls himself Dresser.) Born in Indiana in 1871, he wrote for newspapers (Chicago Globe}, was traveling correspondent for St. Louis Globe-Democrat, edited Butterick Publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea). Fat-cheeked, loose-lipped, furrowed of brow, Author Dreiser looks like what he is: a puzzled brooder over the tragic inconsistencies of life. Other books: The "Genius," Chains, Jennie Gerhardt, Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy...
Last week the Department of State was moved to issue a public warning against a new international racket. By smooth-tongued "agents," many U. S. citizens have been convinced that they are heirs to large British estates ?the buccaneering gold of Sir Francis Drake, the "Blake millions," the "Townley estate" et al. To get these fortunes out of "Chancery," the "heirs" were duped into paying the racketeers thousands of dollars in "legal fees." Letters from some 300 would-be inheritors have swamped the U. S. Consulate in London...
...International Harvester Co.): Trustee Edward Wright Sheldon (Manhattan lawyer); onetime Princeton Dean William Francis Magie; the late financier Cleveland Hoadley Dodge; the late famed Judge Alfred Salem Niles of Baltimore; the late Banker Trustee Parker Douglas Handy of Manhattan; Robert Harris McCarter, onetime (1903-08) Attorney-General of New Jersey; the late Peter Joseph Hamilton of Mobile, author, onetime (1913-21) Judge of Porto Rican District Court...
...hill a mile south of Pomfret, Conn. Within three decades he fashioned it into an orderly T-shaped array of modern Colonial dormitories and classrooms, looking confidently across wide, well kept grounds. He gathered an able faculty, capable of educating educables as well as any of the famed New England schools...
...Pomfret became more and more a "hard-collar" school, its worldly goods were added unto. From Banker Edward R. Stettinius, from the late Morton F. Plant of New London came schoolhouses and dormitories. Mrs. Frederic E. Lewis of Ridgefield gave a gymnasium. Mr. O saw to it that his students used chapel, schoolhouses and gymnasium faithfully and fruitfully. His was a one-man school...