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Last week, George Tidd did a lot of talking for a strong, silent man. He spoke at a special stockholders' meeting to get approval of a $30,000,000 construction program, 15% more than in 1939 (including 80,000 kilowatts of new generating capacity at Philo, Ohio, 25,000 at Atlantic City...
Chapter XXI. These puzzles Detective Lippmann set himself to solve. Swishing-big words around like Philo Vance, he one-two-threed his argument, hauled in the suspects, pointed his finger at the guilty man at the end of Chapter XXI. Said he: Any man who has been President of the United States, "or only vice president of a barber shop," will, when it comes time for him to go, wish to feel that no one can bear to have him leave. Therefore, "there never was a President who did not want to be elected for a second term, and never...
...Grade Allen Murder Case (Paramount), by the late S. S. Van Dine, refuses to accept murder as a serious business. Gracie calls Philo Vance "Fido," outfootles Sergeant Heath, falls for the murderer, gets the hero jailed. Typical gag: Gracie scrutinizing her own photograph, wondering, "Now, where have I seen that face before...
...luck again. He spent two years in bed, unable to read, one more year reading and analyzing detective stories, the heaviest fare his doctor would allow him. When he was able to get around, he took to Editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's the outline of three Philo Vance detective stories. As S. S. Van Dine, Wright wrote serialized best-sellers for a decade, so obscured his earlier reputation that when his identity was revealed (by Bruce Gould, now co-editor of The Ladies' Home Journal) few people except literati remembered who Willard Huntington Wright...
Died. Willard Huntington Wright, 51, critic and (under the pseudonym of S. S. Van Dine) detectifictioneer (Philo Vance) ; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...