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...York Central (through its own "Big Four") added a day-coach streamliner, James Whitcomb Riley, to the Cincinnati-Chicago beat, cut the time on the 303-mile stretch to 5½ hours. >For the long New York-New Orleans haul, the Southern, earlier this month added three new Southerner trains, all day-coach streamliners...
Died. Clara Elizabeth Laughlin, 67, oldtime Midwestern novelist and friend of Poet James Whitcomb Riley, who turned to writing travel books after World War I, published the highly successful So You're Going to - series; in Chicago...
...those days small-town life was a popular literary theme, with two schools of approach. One stemmed from mellow Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley, was ripest in the folksy novels of Hoosier Booth Tarkington. The other stemmed from the Spoon River Anthology by an Illinois lawyer and politician, Edgar Lee Masters. The ripest work of this school is Sherwood Anderson's. His meandering, mystical tales present the U. S. small town as a dimpling surface above dark fathoms of frustrated desires. He wrote of a typical female in Winesburg, Ohio: "At night she dreamed that he had bitten into...
...insufficiently flattering criticism as Julia Ward Howe's ("she thought [Ella's ability] might be developed into real talent with study and hard work"), her fatal love of making a sensation, gratified by the tempest of propriety that erected Poems of Passion, her brief affair with James Whitcomb Riley (his levity wounded her), her marriage with solid, devoted Robert Wilcox, "a gentleman in every sense of the word" (who years later confided to a fellow club member his astonishment at having found the poetess of passion a virgin...
...sire from London up to Glasgow last week to help interview survivors of the sunken S. S. Athenia. He was authorized to say that the U. S. steamer Orizaba was being sent over to fetch the Athenians home. The neutral yacht Stella Polaris was also being sought from Raymond-Whitcomb Travel Service (world tours...