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...Wilmington, Del. mailman, Jay Saunders Redding was educated (M.A., Ph.D.) at Brown University. In 1939 he published his first book, To Make a Poet Black, a critical analysis of Negro poetry and verse...
...pinochle, hearts and blackjack. Some read comics and newspapers. A soldier looked up from his paper . . . and read names of brands from the sheet-names of cigarets, cigars, foods, liquors-and the card players grinned at the sound of them. . . . Men called out the names of stations-Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Cumberland...
Private Lives. In Wilmington, Del., Mrs. Olive Robertson complained to a judge that she had caught her husband kissing the blonde who had been sleeping in the Robertsons' bed with them because of the housing shortage. She won $16 a week support. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Florence P. Wagner complained that her husband had introduced friends to her while she was taking a bath. She won a divorce...
White Hope. The new president of the Phillies last week turned out to be the new owner's son, Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter Jr. Bob Carpenter, 28, knows some baseball from having been president of the Class B Wilmington (Del.) Blue Rocks and from his father's longtime friendship with Connie Mack. As welcome in the Phillies' office as a 4-F infield, he promised to try to build a real team, to set up a farm system and to hire a general manager (out standing candidate: Herb Pennock, ex-Yankee pitcher and present Boston...
Screens for Secrecy. Columnist Haworth, now in her 30s, reported for the Wilmington News-Journal in her native Ohio, then solicited ads for the Ohio State-Journal at Columbus. In 1930 she quit, married, went to Washington to live. She joined the Post in 1933, when her second child was still a baby, and after her marriage had gone on the rocks. She later got a divorce (in her column she calls divorce "social surgery" and "a desperate remedy for . . . sick relationship...