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...Maurice Newton...
Bottled Up. In Newton, Kans., Robert Beer was jugged for bootlegging...
TIME Correspondent Donald Newton arrived a half hour early, and took up his stand before a restaurant on the square, the Taverna Carioca. A hot wind, the kind cariocas call a suicide wind, blew down from the mountains and put everyone on edge. In the crowded square hundreds were lined up to catch streetcars home. The cops were there already...
Then Communists flooded toward the square by the thousands, chanting the national anthem like a samba. Their banners said: "We want bread," "We are for democracy," "Break with Spain." At the square they met the mounted police who, faces tight with fear, forced them back. Then, reported Correspondent Newton, "a man mounted on others' shoulders told the crowd, 'They cannot stop the meeting. This is still a democracy...
...Died. Newton Booth Tarkington, 76, best-selling literary Gentleman from Indiana, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Magnificent Amber sons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922), whose heirs included Willie Baxter, Penrod and Sam, Monsieur Beaucaire; after long illness; in Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with...