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...announcement of "John Martin's" new job coincided with the 20th anniversary of his magazine. His real name is Morgan von Roorbach Shepard. He says he is 55, looks about ten years older, is small, wiry, baldish. Contrary to strangely persistent legends (besides one that he is a woman) he is neither crippled nor blind, nor has he a harelip. His professional name dates back to his childhood on a Maryland plantation. A bird house in the backyard was occupied by a colony of martins, identified by his mother in her story telling as John, Joan, Robin, Alice...
Following the death of his mother, when he was 11, Morgan Shepard was shipped to a boarding school in Germany where he was "manhandled, bullied, and misguided almost beyond endurance." At 17 he began vagabonding around the U. S. and Central America, working in mines, on farms, cattle ranches, freighters. In California he was hired as a streetcar conductor, fired for letting youngsters ride free. He got a job as bookkeeper in a San Francisco bank, held and hated it for 13 years. In the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 he suffered injuries to his shoulder and foot. Short while...
About that time Morgan Shepard began building a subscription list of parents to whose children he would write "John Martin" letters, full of A. A. Milneish stories and whimsical drawings. Within two years he was sending 2,000 printed letters a month. In 1912 the letter writing business had grown so big (although "there was no money in it") that he changed it to the monthly magazine, John Martin's Book. Richly illustrated and printed, nearly barren of advertising, the magazine has not been profitable. To make money, Editor Shepard has written children's booklets for Wanamaker's store, advertisements...
...quietly as he tells them hat the "antediluvian conditions" of Noah's time are repeated today. Jesus Christ is coming. But "men today are deifying man and humanizing God. Modernism is the religion of Cain." among the members of the Fundamentals Association are Mrs. Finley Johnson (Helen Gould) Shepard, Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins (TIME. April 25), Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, famed Seattle pastor, Board Chairman Henry Parsons Crowell of Quaker Oats Co. They were not present in Columbus last week, but the following were : Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of the late Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst. Said...
Yale: Stroke--H. P. Shepard '33; 7, H. M. Brockfield, Jr. '33; 6, W. S. Garnsey III '33; 5, J. S. Atwood '34; 4, J. G. Zimmerman '33; 3, E. W. Stetson, Jr. '34; 2, J. M. Mertz '33; bow, R. M. Davis '33; cox, C. R. Conger...