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Died. William Scott Vare, 66, merchant, onetime Congressman from Pennsylvania (1912-27) and later its famed Senator-reject, longtime boss of Philadelphia's Republican machine; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City. Elected to the Senate in 1926, he was refused his seat because of excessive primary expenditures ($785,000). His grip on the Philadelphia machine was broken in last May's primaries...
Editor Van Doren has tried to include big, smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back...
Born, To Edwin H. Vare, Jr., 38, nephew of onetime Philadelphia Republican Boss William Scott Vare, and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. 31, five-time U. S. women's golf champion: a son; their second child; in Philadelphia...
...racketeer, first introduced into U. S. fiction in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925). now looms large among U. S. villain-heroes. In the cinema he is still sentimentalized into a fiend or a Robin Hood, but in novels, which can afford to be more factual, he is beginning to appear in all three dimensions. Such a three-dimensional portrait of a racketeer is Brain Guy. A more honest and complete picture than The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19), it is written with lengthier brutality, will shock readers who dislike unpleasant subjects, but will entrance...
Energetic Matthew Scott ("Matt") Sloan, who resigned as president of New York Edison Co. in 1932. was an executive without a major executive post until he was elected chairman of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway last April. No railroad man, he spent two months inspecting nearly every mile of Katy's 4,956-mile system, meeting division agents, studying freight problems. Last week Katy gave "Matt" Sloan the post of president in ad dition to his chairmanship. The presidency has been vacant since the resignation last April of Michael Harrison Cahill...