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Indiana University (peacetime enrolment : 7,000) is the alma mater of both Paul McNutt and Wendell Willkie. Like other universities, it occasionally invites various bigwigs to give lectures under its auspices. Last year, the Will Patten Foundation lecturer was Bernard DeVoto, onetime professor, onetime editor of The Saturday Review of Literature, who looks like a bumblebee and writes like an angry hornet...
Died. Walter Patten Murphy, 69, often called "richest bachelor," boxcar manufacturer (Standard Railway Equipment), donor of Northwestern University's $6,735,000 Technological Institute; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. He built a fortune estimated at $80,000,000 on his development of a corrugated steel end for boxcars. He kept his private life so private that when he made his gift to Northwestern in 1939 the university had to look him up in Who's Who to find...
...space of a few blocks stand 14 embassies and legations. Notable remaining Massachusetts Avenue mansions: the unused town house of Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, the four-story house of the President's fifth cousin Alice Longworth, the red-brick mansion of the famed Misses Patten, who once entertained the Prince of Wales, the King of Belgium...
...literary reincarnation like this. To U.S. men of draft age, Frank Merriwell is a vague synonym for a ninth-inning home run or a last-minute touchdown. But to an older generation, he was as vividly real a person as Superman or Tarzan is to youngsters today. Gilbert Patten, under the pseudonym of "Burt L. Standish," wrote the first Merriwell book in 1896, kept on writing at the rate of 20,000 or more words a week for nearly 20 years. Insatiably, week after week, legions of boys gobbled him up between paper covers, price 5?. Their parents approved...
After the Merriwell vein petered out, Gilbert Patten wrote pulp fiction, cinema scenarios, even tried publishing magazines of his own. He now lives in California, a hale, upstanding man of 74. He smokes cigarets (something Frank never did), reads Proust and Zola (of whom Frank never heard). Recently a publisher asked Author Patten to write a novel about Frank as a man of vigorous middle age, coping with the world of 1940. Result: Mr. Frank Merriwell, out this week...