Word: updegraff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of the school are urged to make applications for advisers to W. B. Updegraff '06, 75 West Street, New York City...
...Author Updegraff has chosen Author William J. Locke's favorite scene and peopled it with an odd, rude, fascinating cast. Carnal, slangy, amusing, the story flows swifty through its pages over a strong undercurrent of sorrow and pain...
CAPTAINS IN CONFLICT-Robert R. Updegraff-A. W. Shaw Co- ($2). Author Updegraff has dedicated this industrial romance to "the John Rowntrees of today who are wiping out the memory of the H. B. Lockharts of yesterday." In 1900, aged 25, John Rowntree suddenly inherits his father's nationally advertised stove and range company. Forthwith baldheaded, leather-skinned H. B. ("H. B.") Lockhart, onetime Rowntree employe and now proprietor of a rival stove works, makes an indecent proposal: "Let's combine, juggle the stock, and sell out! Easy money!" Young Rowntree refrains from smashing Mr. Lockhart...