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Henry van Dyke was born in 1852 in Germantown, Pa., son of an old, conservative, well-to-do Dutch family. His father became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn Heights, was notorious for his Southern sympathies before the Civil War. Once during that War a mob surrounded the van Dyke home, demanded that the pastor display the U. S. flag as proof of his loyalty, was dispersed by elders of the church. Mentioning such conflicts with obvious distaste, Tertius van Dyke concentrates on Henry van Dyke's idyllic boyhood, his carefree college years in Princeton, his travels...
...picture of a laughing little girl in a party dress, clutching a balloon (see cut), had been entered in the national contest by the Louisville Courier-Journal. Louisville newshawks found Miss Graham, a teacher in the Lebanon High School, all warm and pink with excitement. Daughter of a well-to-do poultry dealer, a graduate of the University of Kentucky, she has always been interested in photography but was limited to a small Brownie, until last Christmas when a friend gave her an inexpensive No. 616 Hawkeye camera with an F6.3 lens and portrait attachment. With the aid of some...
...Shanghai, where well-to-do Chinese are cold to the white-hot flame of Chinese patriotism, hospital bulletins on the Premier were anxiously snatched as fast as they came in. Next day, at a rumor that Wang was dead, panic began to sweep Shanghai's Exchange. Solid gold bars- "the only safe thing"-soared up as everything else fell. Then gold receded as the Premier's condition was said to be "satisfactory." Same day Shooter Sun died of wounds...
...room, that the real business of the convention was transacted. Ever at his side was his pretty redhaired, 28-year-old wife Thelma, one-time stenographer, whom he married last year. Though he still owns land in 7 States, Mrs. Clements says her husband is now only moderately well-to-do. But they can afford to drive a Lincoln automobile, criss-cross the country by airplane keep up an eight-room apartment. Early this year three Denver Townsendites returned from a mission to Washington to proclaim that Founders Townsend and Clements were not really trying to get their scheme through...
...more impressive and ambitious volume than Appointment in Samarra, his first novel, Butter field 8 suggests that John O'Hara is well on his way to becoming the voice of the hangover generation that awakened in the grey dawn of 1930. Writing principally of speakeasy, country-club, fairly well-to-do crowds similar to those Fitzgerald wrote about, he presents them as much less tender, much more bitter, much more worried about money, casually frank in their acceptance of the more brutal realities of sexual experiences. And their stories he finds, almost without exception, grim...