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...London, Countess Russell endeavored to excuse aged U. S. journalist-lecturer Poultney Bigelow for asserting* that famed British novelist-historian H. G. Wells seemed to him like "a lucky stock-broker or traveling salesman," on the now famous occasion of their meeting at Countess Russell's flat (TIME, Jan. 25). Said Countess Russell, famed as the anonymous author of Elizabeth and her German Garden, known to pre-War German society as the Countess von Arnim, before her marriage Miss Mary Annette Beauchamp: "Bigelow is full of generous admiration. He gilds one with his warm rays. I am persuaded that...
...long ago the famed novelist-historian H. G. Wells picked up a fat autobiography entitled Seventy Summers, by one Poultney Bigelow, aged U. S. journalist-lecturer, son of a former U. S. Ambassador to France...
...quarrel between Poultney Bigelow, American author, and H. G. Wells, paradoxical British internationalist, waxes interesting. In Mr. Bigelow's recent book of reminiscences, he criticised the manners of Mr. Wells in no half-hearted way. Whereupon the British author administered through the press of his country the reproof valiant. Attached to his declaration was the thundering footnote, "American papers please copy...
...Thomas Poultney Lindsay, No. 7, and captain, of Boston, rowed for three years at St. Paul's School, and last year on the Stone's School crew. Age, 20; height, 6 ft. 1-2 in.; weight...
...German Emperor and Constitutional Liberty," Poultney Bigelow...