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Adams, Franklin P(ierce)
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| Journalist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A New York-based columnist for four decades up to 1941, he was better known under his initials ‘FPA’. Top writers vyed to contribute to his ‘Conning Tower’, to which he also supplied his own crisp, humorous verse and wide-ranging commentary. On a regular basis he contributed a diary of his activities on the New York literary scene, in a style parodying 17th-c English diarist Samuel Pepys. He was a panellist on the popular radio show Information Please (1938–48) and is also remembered for his verse, ‘Tinker to Evers to Chance’ (1910). |
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