Word: telegraphe
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...late devious Novelist Henry James, encountering Authoress Harris, went so far as not to deem it inexpedient to encourage her with her writing. His protegee's subsequent literary career has given him cause to turn proudly in his grave. Long a successful journalist (London Daily News, Daily Telegraph, Manchester Guardian), Authoress Harris won a $5,000 prize with her first novel, The Seventh Gate. Her second novel may popularize a writer who is apparently Katherine Mansfield's nearest living literary relative. Her book, written in an extraordinarily vivid style, too pointed for extended novel-writing, is a sequence of short...
...late Walter Hines Page, then a partner in the publishing firm of Doubleday Page, who edited it from 1900 until 1913 when he was appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James. He was succeeded by his son Arthur Wilson Page, now vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and successively by Carl Chandlee Dickey, Barton Wood Currie (previously editor of Ladies' Home Journal), Russell Doubleday, Alan C. Collins...
...than any man who ever lived in Ann Arbor. He used to work on the Michigan Daily and his editorials tearing down administrative and personal actions on the campus were nothing short of libel. He got a job with the Detroit News, then the Detroit Times, and the Morning Telegraph (New York), and ended up on the A. P. news staff. In 1927 he founded Plain Talk after having written a successful novel called Backfurrow...
Died. Edwin Follett Carter, 22, Dartmouth graduate, son of Edwin Farnham Carter, vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; in Brookings, S. Dak. He was on his way to Alaska with Walter Sherman Gifford Jr., 14, son of A. T. & T.'s president. Young Gifford, just learning to drive, failed to note a turn in the road, drove the car into a ditch. Carter was thrown out, his neck broken. Young Gifford, his left arm crushed, was whisked to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn...
...Power & Light Corp. passed second preferred and common dividends despite reported earnings of $9,265,000 for the twelve months ending March 31. Aetna Life Insurance Co. passed its dividend. American News Co. cut its payment in half. General Tire & Rubber passed its preferred payment, as did Associated Telephone & Telegraph, large independent. Another omission was that of Curtis Publishing Co. (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) ; and shortly afterward Curtis announced a general 10% advertising rate reduction. Gloomy Chicago was cheered by the announcement that the three big Insull companies will only reduce, not omit, their dividends at the next...