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Died. Bertrand H. Snell, 87, longtime (1914-38) hardshell Republican representative from upstate New York, bitter foe of the New Deal as House Minority Leader (1931-38); in Potsdam...
...their titles suggest, the novels are a queer quartet: The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931), Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), A Cool Million (1934), and The Day of the Locust (1939). During his lifetime...
Laugh at the Laugh. When West first started to bat about with his phosgene-filled clown's bladder, he was an expatriate boulevardier in Paris, sporting umbrella and plaid overcoat among the beards and corduroy of the lost generation. The Dream Life of Balso Snell seems on the surface like one of those near-sophomoric, painfully private japes played for the semiprivate public of a little magazine. It concerns the dream adventures of Balso Snell, a poet, who enters a Trojan Horse from the rear end ("Anus Mirabilis!"), and encounters a number of symbolic characters in the murky interior...
Killed in a 1947 plane crash were Oregon's Republican Governor Earl Snell, his secretary of state and the president of the state senate. The tragedy left a void at the very top of Oregon Republicanism-a void soon filled by State Senator Douglas McKay, who ran for governor in an off-year election and won. Patterson also moved up, although at a slower pace than McKay. In 1951 Patterson was elected senate president, and, since that position stands second in Oregon's line of succession, became governor when McKay resigned to go to Washington as Eisenhower...
Despite his better than 40 hours a week out in Milford, Snell says he still gets his college work done. "After all, this bus business is only a hobby," he explains...