| Show I 1 NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON EW YORK at the old beanery N NEW tot corthe the hired help in the new york world building a few years ago there was quite a stir and stew of abbl dream book tion swapping came through dreams one As advertised Max wellAnder maxwet ander son was going to write a play louis had the some same idea big jovial phil stong had written 18 16 novels to the quite considerable indifference ot of all pub It ushers but mr stong said all this w was as just a little practice workout and he promised to deliver later on swarthy saturnine james cain thought he be might have the making ot of a book or two in hla his system but said little about it young whippy dudley nichols Nl chols a demon reporter trained as an engineer had a writing career neatly blueprinted blue printed paul sifton burned up by social injustice t i c e w was a going to write a few e w plays s ar goe atoori adf inala ayi and n d t tear e the lid off t things s in general ben burman whom phil stong could carry around in hla his pocket was going to be a bell ringing novelist A k kindly i nd 1 y D destiny e st 1 n y p presided r es f d e d 0 over v c r ahk the e 0 old 1 d b beanery e a ne r y T the h e a above b 0 i e p playwrights 1 a y novelists and hollywood big biga shots probably could have bought the then staking sinking world with their collective resources of today although mr sifton after pulling two twi or three lurid broadway plays now BOW is sunk voluntarily la in the somewhat undra matlo matto federal wage board as its assistant director the spot news of this chronicle is that mr burman has been honored with the southern authors award for his recently published n novel 0 B blow low for a landing this Is the highest E hest Ilie literary award in the gift of the south in which nonfiction non fiction alsa was judged ills his previous books include e steamboat round the bend which became will rogers last screen play and several other mississippi sis sippi yarns he has inore or less of a personal copyright on river tales mr burman once told me how hov his dream was almost sidetracked he quit th the e world to b become e c ome an author with no luck and at long last only a dime the fragrance of freshly baked buns in a shop window de thrones his reason and he shot the dime for or four buns back in his garret he found a letter from a magazine saying they liked his minstrels of the mist which they had had for months and which he had given up as lost would he come up and consult akern them on a minor change he would but lacked carfare I 1 he had seen a pretty girl in a nearby studio he know maw her aher but he told her his troubles she was similarly situated but staked him to three two cent stamps he raised a nickel on them at a stationery store saw the editor and got not only a check but a big hand on Us his story and naturally he ae returned and married the be pretty girl who thereafter illustrated his books as they traversed not only his pet river but damascus the he sahara desert bagdad and other such inether lodes of literary raw piat material erial 0 L T OUIS SHATTUCK GATES CATES sll u ver gray and semi corpulent heavy spoken and decisive is a bourbon whose wall street office looks out over M miners iners salute the house of Topnotch erin in morgan and the copper copp world new w york stock exchange and yet thousands of small mining men up and down the rocky mountains today a are re sending him congratulations the american institute of f minina aud nd metallurgical engineers awards him the william lawrence saunders gold medal for 11 signal sigual accomplishment in mining and metallurgical enterprises this honor boes to mr air cate s as a depress to n roade made leader in the copper industry his hii methods have facilitated copper vir re recovery civery from low grade ore however much of the cheer taa comes from the small aln mining men of the ivest for his successful efforts tor for a four cents t pound poad import tax on an foreign copper he is a miners miner and no swivel chair industrial captain this 57 year old president vt of a corporation for every mile of bridle path which he may ride in suburbs suburban connecticut t today oday he has spent long ho hours urs in the saddle years ago directing mining operations in utah uta and arizona he is is M IT I 1 T 1902 amative a a native of boston ills dos ser clicks on oft timekeeper shift boss fareman to reman superintendent general manager vice s president and president of the phelps dodge crp corp and now a medal a consolidated Consol news features feature service |
