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Last week, Colyumist Walter Winchell of the New York Daily Mirror reported that Biographer Winkler's "confidential, unimpeachable" source on Rockefeller data was Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman...
...translation "Keep Out" was accepted by TIME from Biographer Winkler, author of John...
Engaged (for a companionate marriage). John K. Winkler, biographer (John D.-A Portrait in Oils [TIME, July 8]); and Edith A. Whitney, showgirl...
...Significance. Neither as scholarly nor as impartial as his publishers believe, Author Winkler gives a very human, very rambling account. Moral, he writes: "[Graft] can scarcely be prevented when private citizens deliberately defy the moral and legal codes of organized society." He tries to stop as short of libel as of praise. Psychologically, his work is a study of the U. S. single-track mind engaged in the prime U. S. occupation?money-making. Historically, the work treats of a career coincident with the entire post-Civil War development of U. S. industry...
...Author. Born in Camden, S. C., John K. Winkler went to school in Manhattan. In 1908, aged 18, he got his first and only regular job, as a reporter for William Randolph Hearst, whom he seldom saw but about whom he was to do his most ambitious writing prior to this book in a series for The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart, later bound as Hearst, An American Phenomenon. Author Winkler left the newsgathering business five years ago but still sleeps by day, works or plays by night. Closely related to a Baptist minister, it is perhaps through this connection that...