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...boyish spirits like Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, singers of "the open road," and the feeble graces of others like Thomas Bailey Aldrich. But they recognize the "serenity, grace and lightness" of George Santayana's best verse, and properly value the authentic American nostalgia expressed by James Whitcomb Riley...
...Irwin Monroe Arias, Walter Robert Beer, Jr., Francis Robert Buckley, Allan Churchill Butler, George Chi-Ming Chen, Edward Cranch Eliot, Carmine Mario Fasano, George Harry Foote, Irwin Bertram Green, Crosby Hitchcock, Thomas Joseph Hughes, Jr., Robert Leon Jenkins, Robert Henry Lautz, David Delamater Mackintosh, George Seward Might, Arnold Whitcomb Morse, James Roland Patterson, Jr., James Stenius Roberts, Ralph Dudley Sanderson, Ralph Henry Vogel, Richard Saltonstall West, William Fryer Wicks, Theodore Henry Woggon, James Joshua Zimmerman...
Died. Newton Booth Tarkington, 76, best-selling literary Gentleman from Indiana, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Magnificent Amber sons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922), whose heirs included Willie Baxter, Penrod and Sam, Monsieur Beaucaire; after long illness; in Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with...
...years, he planned to repair to the Hollywood Cemetery with Times employes and relatives of the dead men for the annual memorial service. There, sitting tall and erect on his usual folding chair, gazing solemnly at the big memorial monument, he would have heard the Rev. W. Whitcomb Brougher begin his customary prayer: "Oh Lord, we thank Thee for the Times, which through all the years has championed the right to work...
Almost anywhere in the U.S. a conference of city officials at 7:45 a.m. would be an unusual sight. But not in San Francisco's old Whitcomb Hotel (three blocks from the city hall), where a group of some 30 city fathers (seven Roman Catholics, seven Presbyterians, an assortment of other Protestants) meet each Thursday morning for a half-hour's Bible study...