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Died. Clarence Budington Kelland, 82, tireless practitioner of the first basic plot (good guy wins), who in 61 years authored 10 million words chronicling the adventures of such homespuns as Scattergood Baines, Mark Tidd and Mr. Deeds, dabbled in Republican politics on the side; after a brief illness; in Scottsdale, Ariz...
...threnodic '303 Humorist Sidney Joseph Perelman was just a "fun-loving American boy," "a combination of Raskolnikov and Mark Tidd."* He loved his alma mater's "mingled smell of wood smoke and freshmen." But one day, while "reclining on my chaise longue in a negligee trimmed with marabou," Perelman glanced at the "Why Don't You?" department in Harper's Bazaar: "Why don't you try the effect of diamond roses and ribbons flat on your head, as Garbo wears them when she says good-bye to Armand. . . ?" "Why don't you travel with...
...conformist is George Tidd. Said he in 1929, when most utility men were singing other songs: "We are not community saviors. When we begin to talk to each other and to our customers of our great love for the dear public and of the duty and privilege of slaving endlessly that it may be well served, we are dangerously close to maudlin sentimentality. ... I would like to see a reaction from . . . back-slapping uplift . . . and plain, unmitigated bunk...
...Tidd began his career working for Postal Telegraph in Waverly, N. Y. His first month he made $17-in commissions, by using high-pressure tactics selling telegrams. Soon after that, Postal tried to persuade him to take a salary because he was making too much money. By 1904, after night-schooling his way into utility engineering, he was an operating company executive. Nowadays he sits in No. 30 Church Street, Manhattan (home, too, of the New York Railroad Club, where U. S. heavy industrialists lunch in droves), smokes cigarets incessantly, machine-guns his words a few sentences at a time...
Last week, George Tidd did a lot of talking for a strong, silent man. He spoke at a special stockholders' meeting to get approval of a $30,000,000 construction program, 15% more than in 1939 (including 80,000 kilowatts of new generating capacity at Philo, Ohio, 25,000 at Atlantic City...