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...succeed squarejawed, hardworking, conservative Mr. Lorimer, the Curtis directors ratified the retiring editor's own choice of a squarejawed, hardworking, conservative colleague, Wesley Winans Stout, a 47-year-old Kansan. Curtis' President Walter Dean Fuller was delighted to announce that Mr. Stout shared Mr. Lorimer's beliefs in "fundamental American doctrines." A graduate of the Kansas City Star, Wesley Winans Stout has been one of the Post's associates for twelve years, has written and ghost-written many an article. Last week he set out on a motor trip with his wife for a brief vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lorimer Out | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...been combed but suggested that a work of definite historical value might be produced if Western biographers would turn their eyes away from the gunsmoke of legend that surrounds their heroes and concentrate on the environments in which they flourished. As in Thomas Ripley's life of Wesley Hardin, They Died with Their Boots On (TIME, July 29, 1935), Wayne Card's life of Sam Bass is least interesting in those sections where the central figure is built up as a bold and exceptional individual, most vivid in its account of political and social struggles on the frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Second-Rate Badman | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...Sanitary Chemistry, Stanley J. G. Nowak, instructor in Surgery, James A. Noble 1G., James G. O'mara 3G., Howard A. Potter 4G., Kenneth B. Raper 2G., Wendell A. Ray 4G., True W. Robinson 7GG., William E. Schevill, assistant curator in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernest R. Sears 4G., Wesley W. Spink, assistant in Medicine, Robert E. Stauffer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGMA XI ELECTS FOUR OFFICERS, 44 MEMBERS | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...Alexander Preston Shaw, 57, of New Orleans, is editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate. Most Methodist bishops look alike, with their white faces, firm jaws, thin lips. Bishop Shaw is physically unique in that he is a Negro. He is to succeed retiring Negro Bishop Matthew Wesley Clair of Covington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle of Columbus (Concl.) | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...Wilbur Emery Hammaker, 60, pastor for 21 years of Trinity M. E. Church in Youngstown, Ohio, and Dr. Charles Wesley Flint, 57, Chancellor of Syracuse University, were both rightly regarded by the conference as conservative Methodists. Students at Syracuse, of which Dr. Flint has been head since 1922, professed to believe he had wished to retire because antics of some of its young men, it is still typical of how a good-sized ministerial training school operates. The fact that Union matriculates Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, exposes them to the religious views of Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Disciples of Christ and then returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle of Columbus (Concl.) | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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