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JUBAL TROOP-Paul I. Wellman-Carrick & Evans ($2.75). A first novel, this has two distinctions: 1) Author Wellman, newspaperman and ex-cowboy, is a Western historian, author of an excellent study of Indian war, Death in the Desert; 2) his Jubal Troop makes a fortune instead of leading a romantic life among scenes of gun play, escape, cattle rustling, prospecting, big-time gambling. Author Wellman's gratuitous moral: Jubal Troop's money-grabbing...
Born. To William Augustus ("Wild Bill") Wellman, 43, crack cinema director (Nothing Sacred, Men With Wings), and his fourth wife: a daughter, their third child; in Hollywood...
Members of his committee include William N. Chandler '41, McCrea H. Cobb '39, Henry P. Day '41, William H. McElwain '41, Douglas Mercer '40, Jere J. Nelson '41, Hamlin D. Smith '41, and Prescott H. Wellman...
...turned in by the President's ten-man junket to study European marketing co operatives. More recently Mr. Elliott refused to O. K. expenditures for AAA's scheme to pay growers $10 a bale for cotton surrendered for loans, termed a Navy contract with Cleveland's Wellman Engineering Co. "illegal," watched complacently from the sidelines as three of his accountants last November filled the TV A investigating committee with unflattering accounts of TVA accounting practices...
...even better illustration of this belief is Wellman's own career. Respectably reared in quiet Brookline, Mass., he left high school to sell chocolates and woolen goods, failing miserably at both. After the War he went to Hollywood, persuaded Douglas Fairbanks to give him a job acting in The Knickerbocker Buckaroo. After William Wellman took one good look at himself on the screen he decided he was an even worse actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when...