Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the following was news: Six years ago the New York Stock Exchange, casting about for a bright young assistant secretary, lifted Dean Kirkham Worcester out of the investment department of Farmers Loan & Trust Co. Handsome, moose-tall Dean Worcester, who married a daughter of Novelist Arthur Train, had graduated from Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to become an engineer for New York Telephone Co. As assistant secretary he distinguished himself at the Stock Exchange early in Depression as a crack trouble-shooter and inside man. In 1930 he was made an officer and director of New York...
Married. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 42, novelist (The Good Earth, Sons, House Divided); and her Manhattan publisher, President Richard John Walsh of John Day Co.; in Reno, after Mrs. Buck had divorced John Lossing Buck, onetime missionary, and Mr. Walsh had been divorced by Mrs. Ruth Abbott Walsh, good friend of Mrs. Buck...
THOMAS MANN: Novelist of rare distinotion an interpreter of life to many in the western world, one of the few contemporary guardians of the great tradition of German culture...
...surroundings. The account of Andrew's expedition wandering in the frozen wastes of Russia in search of a brilliant philosopher, who at times seems to become an illusion, a product of fevered imaginations, and the story of Sandy's slow degeneracy are perhaps unsurpassed by any realistic novelist. But it is the motivation of the characters which makes this novel outstanding...
Died, Sarah Haardt Mencken, 37, essayist, novelist (The Making of a Lady), wife of famed Baltimore Critic H. L. Mencken; after long illness; in Baltimore...