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...mocked: "The fiancé of Miss Vanderbilt is descended...through a long line of titled cuckolds and shameless pimps, and now stands on the ragged edge of poverty, bartering to parvenus for bread an empty dukedom bought with a female relative's dishonor." Brann scoffed at James Whitcomb Riley, "the poetical ass with the three-story name," railed at a clergyman-critic as a "monstrous bag of fetid wind," adding: "The man who can find intellectual food in [his] sermons could acquire a case of delirium tremens by drinking the froth out of a pop bottle...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow visits the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Artist Jon Whitcomb...
...eliminate the trouble, the engineers applied the new "area rule" theory of Engineer Richard T. Whitcomb of the Government's National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. In 1951, Engineer Whitcomb discovered in wind-tunnel experiments that the total drag on a plane is not merely the sum of the drag on each of its parts, but varies according to where the parts are located. Convair's F-102 was redesigned with a punched-in "coke bottle" fuselage to smooth the air flow over the critical wing junction. Result: on its first flight, Convair...
...Dreiser, W. E. Woodward, F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley), Horace Liveright, Eugene Debs, Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene O'Neill, Sherwood Anderson, Klaus Mann." And, lamented Sinclair, the roster of hard drinkers among the illustrious he knew through letters or friends was even longer. Among those departed: "Stephen Crane, James Whitcomb Riley, Heywood Broun, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin A. Robinson, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Scott Fitzgerald, Hart Crane, John Barrymore, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Dylan Thomas." Concluded Sinclair: "After wasting a year trying to please publishers, I am making this appeal to the conscience of my country...
...study for a big, sumptuous tapestry. The classic grandeur Rubens intended is conveyed by the small study, but casually, which makes it all the more effective. The picture was one of 15 little gems of European art that hung in the Grosse Pointe home of Philanthropist Edgar B. Whitcomb and his wife until both died last year and bequeathed them to the Detroit Institute...