Word: serializer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career: Born to a cousin of Gladstone; prizeman at Glasgow Uni-versity and Oxford and President of the Oxford Union; member of the "Balliol Kindergarten";* secret service operative and organizer of the Foreign Office's propaganda bureau during the World War; writer of a World War history in serial form which patriotic parents still give children in the United Kingdom; Director of Information under Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1917-18); M. P. since 1927 for the Scottish Universities; twice (1933 & 1934) Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland; 32-time novelist and lifelong apologist...
...Satevepost's George Horace Lorimer, "the most insidiously seductive Lorelei of them all ... perched on a rock known as the Curtis Publishing Company overlooking the human tide that ebbs and flows along Independence Square in Philadelphia." Author Flandrau had written pure, sexless, nonalcoholic short stories, a good clean serial called The Diary of a Freshman, when Editor Lorimer wanted him to write the diary of a professor. Author Flandrau fled to Europe. The editor, using "diplomatic and gratifying" communications, persuaded him at least to take his charming fictional college boys along. Wearily Author Flandrau capitulated, found the young Harvard...
Small, dark-eyed, prolific Author Baldwin took quick advantage of her first success, and at great speed, using the amateur's hunt and peck system, in the next five years typed out 16 serials as well as many a short story. Her grammar was shaky, her punctuation poor, but rates for her work increased steadily, until she now receives more than $50,000 for each of her magazine serials, is approaching Kathleen Norris' top mark of approximately $75,000 a serial for three serials a year. Unlike Romancer Norris, who can carry on a conversation and manage...
Promptly on George Weyerhaeuser's release after payment of $200,000 ransom (TIME, June 10), Chief Hoover had issued a serial number list of the ransom bills, put 100 of his agents on the kidnappers' trail. Within a few days 30 of the bills had turned up in Utah banks, been traced to Salt Lake City stores. A local detective was waiting when, one week to a day after the kidnapped boy's release, a short, brown-haired woman walked into a Salt Lake City 5-&-10? store, made a small purchase. At the cashier...
Director Donald Randall Richberg of the National Emergency Council, who has found Hugh Samuel Johnson's Saturday Evening Post serial The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth much less offensive than he expected (TIME, Dec. 31, et seq.), told a Miami audience: "I question your interest even in the harrowing tale of the transition of the Blue Eagle from egg to egomania...