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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author (Diamond Dick stories, Stop Thief, In the Name of the Czar, The United States Mail); in Owasco. Twenty-six years ago Author Jenks started the Diamond Dick series, wrote 250 novels in four years, each 25,000 words long. Once he wrote a "dime novel" in three days...
...Title given to him three years ago by The Jewish Tribune (TIME...
...only previous recipients of the Priestley Medal have been the late President Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins and the late Provost Edgar Fahs Smith of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Garvan could not travel to Minneapolis from Manhattan because "three years ago I broke down. Some say that breakdown was the result of my endeavors to establish independent and sufficient chemical education, chemical research and chemical industries in America. . . ." This apology and the rest of Mr. Garvan's "random thoughts of a lay chemist," Professor Julius Oscar Stieglitz of the University of Chicago read for absent Mr. Garvan...
Chesterton v. Wells. On the second day of the Catholic Congress, up reared the portentous bulk of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. England's three greatest publicists are the Messrs. Shaw, Chesterton and Herbert George Wells. Instead of replying to the Shavian sex sarcasm of the day before, Mr. Chesterton elected to assail Mr. Wells, evolutionist. He began by talking about atheists, of whom, he said, the world has very few. "An atheist," he boomed, "is much more difficult to emancipate than any one else because he is, above all people, the narrowest and most completely captive." But Mr. Wells...
Remote Control. Effective plays may be fashioned about Love and Death and Vanity because these are common concern of the race. So is Radio, which can cause as much turmoil as any of the other three. Consider the malefactions at Chicago's station WPH. An ominous spiritualist called Dr. Workman was broadcasting questions with ghost-given answers. The studio was plunged in darkness, for only so could he connect with his wise phantoms. Whereupon an ugly bevy of Chicago's finest gunmen entered, stripped the jewelry from some debutantes who were about to advertise a Junior League extravaganza...