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Edith Ogutsch (1929-1990)
Poet, AuthorBorn January 30, 1929, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, GermanyDied February 25, 1990, Los Angeles, CaliforniaEdith Ogutsch was born in Essen, Germany, on January 30, 1929. Her father, Wilhelm...
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Edgar Lloyd Hampton (1872-1951)
Editor, Publisher, Journalist, Author, PoetBorn June 25, 1872, IowaDied September 22, 1951, Los Angeles, CaliforniaEdgar Lloyd Hampton was born on June 25, 1872, in Iowa, but he lived most of his life...
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Mrs. Edgar Saltus (1883-1960)
Née Marie Florence GilesPoet, Novelist, Short Story Writer, BiographerBorn May 15, 1883, Morristown, New JerseyDied March 20, 1960, Hollywood, CaliforniaWeird Tales was a magazine with a special appeal...
View ArticleEdith de Garis (?-1950)
Née Edith WildJournalist, Author, TeacherBorn ?Died July 13, 1950, Albany, New YorkThe authors and artists who contributed to Weird Tales came from all walks of life and lived in earth's every quarter....
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Marion Carrere (1906-1970)
Marion Carrère BlackAka Marion Black VaccaroPoet, Author, Artist, Tutor, Friend and Traveling CompanionBorn January 17, 1906, New YorkDied April 14, 1970, Miami, FloridaI no longer have access to...
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Abrach (?-?)-Part One
AuthorBorn ?Died ?In my last entry, I wrote about how easily unanswered questions are being answered in this Internet age. Well, not so fast.Abrach was the author of one story in Weird Tales, "The...
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Abrach, author of "The Plaid" in Weird Tales, July 1952, was very likely a pseudonymous author. As I wrote in the first part of this article, the name Abrach offers clues as to the author's place of...
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Anthony Rud and the Tango Dancer Murder-Part One
Anthony M. RudAka Ray MacGillvary, Anson Piper, and probably also Ray McGillivrayAuthor, EditorBorn January 11, 1893, Chicago, IllinoisDied November 30, 1942, New York, New YorkAnthony Melville Rud was...
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Anthony Rud and the Tango Dancer Murder-Part Two
On the afternoon of September 26, 1913, Mildred Allison Rexroat, dressed in a dark blue suit, wearing a new hat and white gloves, adorning herself with several hundred dollars worth of jewelry, and...
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Aka Anson Piper, Ray McGillivrayAuthor, EditorBorn January 11, 1893, Chicago, IllinoisDied November 30, 1942, New York, New YorkAnthony Melville Rud was twenty years old when Mildred Allison Rexroat...
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Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part One
Aka Theodore LeBerthon, Ted Le Berthon, Ted LeBerthonAuthor, Editor, Reporter, Columnist, Critic, ActivistBorn January 9, 1892, San Francisco, CaliforniaDied January 31, 1960, Fresno, CaliforniaHere's...
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Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Two
Martha Morgan: You newspapermen are so cynical about everything that doesn’t come out of your own typewriters.That was actress Helene Le Berthon's first line in the movie Religious Racketeers (1938)....
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Theodore M. Le Berthon was born to John Leopold Le Berthon and Rose Marguerite (Vollmer) Le Berthon on January 9, 1892, in San Francisco, California. (1, 2) He was the oldest of their three children....
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Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Four
Courageous Crusading JournalistNative of San FranciscoThat is the inscription (in part) on John L. Le Berthon's headstone. Although he was a native of San Francisco, Le Berthon was buried at School...
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Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Five
As a journalist, activist, and contributor to Catholic magazines, Theodore Le Berthon shared his father's crusading ways. He was educated in the Catholic schools of Los Angeles. At the time of his...
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Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Six
Theodore Le Berthon seems to have been a full-time writer, journalist, and/or publicity man all of his working life. I have found lots of credits for him. Some have dates attached to them. Some don't....
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Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Seven
Several years ago Ted Le Berthon resigned his post as assistant editor of the Catholic Digest in order to devote more time to creative writing. . . . As general assignment reporter on New York,...
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Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Eight
On December 9, 1925, in "The Merry-Go-Round," his column for the Los Angeles Evening Herald, Ted Le Berthon wrote about a strange young man whose future would prove him to be not just strange but...
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Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Nine
On January 15, 1947, Betty Bersinger of Leimert Park, Los Angeles, was on an errand with her three-year-old daughter when she saw, lying in a vacant lot, what she thought to be a department store...
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Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Ten
The body of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles on January 15, 1947. A little over a month later, on February 23, 1947, presumably in Boston, Helene Le Berthon married Franklin B. Pollock of...
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