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...Only. Despite critical frowns, this vigorous brand of optimism has held the affections of three generations of U.S. readers, and netted Author Kelland a fortune. Since his first book in 1913, he has written 38 others, some of them, such as Valley of the Sun (355,000 copies) and Sugarfoot (414,000 copies') runaway bestsellers. Others have made hit movies, e.g., Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. His most famous character, Scattergood Baines, has been the subject of five movies and a durable radio soap opera...
Author of the plan is pint-sized, vitriolic Clarence Budington Kelland, G.O.P. National Committeeman from Arizona, longtime fictioneer for the Saturday Evening Post (Sugarfoot, Arizona), onetime tub-thumping isolationist (Pearl Harbor changed his mind). A bitter-end Republican, he caused a rumpus in Manhattan's famed Dutch Treat Club by stating, in May 1940, that the Fifth Column in America was headed "by that fellow in the White House...
...advent of Chick Webb and Gene Krupa has revolutionized the style of every rhythm section in the country, so that today even a mediocre band like Jan Savitt's can cut any of the old Armstrong or Henderson groups as for as pure rhythm is concerned. Compare Fletcher's Sugarfoot Stomp with Savitt's and see what I mean...
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