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PAGE FOUR THE DAILY TAB HEEL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1S33 'Alumnus Thomas Wolfe Dies (Continued from first page) youth was too young to enlist in the army; so he was one of the'f ew men attending classes. Playwriter "The Return of Buck Gavin," included in the second volume of Carolina Folk Plays, was the first play he submitted. Wolfe took his own lead and every thing went . fine until someone offered some adverse criticism. Wolfe wept behind the scenes. He wrote several other folk plays and collaborated with Paul Green in working with the Playmakers. The young author also found time to write for the Tar Baby, first humorous publication on the campus, and the Carolina Maga zine. In 1919 he became assist ant editor of the Magazine, and the following year was editor of the Tar Heel, then a. weekly paper. The editor made a prac tice of staying up the night be fore the deadline and writing all WELCOME FACULTY AND STUDENTS With seventeen years of distinguished service behind us, we have, in the de sire to offer you a more pleasant set ting in which to enjoy your meals, renovated our restaurant. Our food is as expertly prepared as always. We think you will enjoy it .more. The Carolina Coffee Shop c" n W70 uu Durham Dairy Products Delivered Before Early Breakfast to Your Room or Home. Place Your OMer 1 Today. Gold Seal Milk o Gold Seal Ice Cream Golden Guernsey Milk Durham Dairy Products Inc. 140 E. Franklin St. Phone 7766 Freshmen: Visit our attractive ice cream store the first time you are down-town. Creamy milk shakes and de- ' licious toasted sandwiches! - WELCOME CAROLINA Durham's most modern Department Store invites you to come with your shopping problems. Baldwin's is a complete store afford ing modern shopping conveniences. Serving Chapel Hill and the Univer sity of North Carolina for over 25 years, we now can give better serv ices with our newly enlarged store. Note these highlights: Largest Decorating Dept. in Durham Quality Apparel for Women Smart Furnishings for Men Luncheonette serving delicious food ALD WIN'S 107 Main St. Durham his copy then journeying to Dur ham to have it printed. Attended Harvard After graduating from Uni versity of North Carolina in 1920, Thomas Wolfe went to Har vard. He received his M.A. there in 1923 and taught English at New York university until Janu ary, 1930. "Look Homeward, Angel," his first novel, was pub lished in 1929. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1930 for creative writing. After that he wrote and traveled wide ly in Europe. "Look Homeward, Angel," an autobiographic novel, caused great criticism to be heaped up on the author by the citizens of Asheville, Chapel Hill, and Ral eigh. .The Asheville Times wrote at this time, "The Times must confess that it has no admira tion for the -class of fiction to which the book belongs. Some of Wolfe's writing seems to us to be needless vulgarity, a sort of deliberate seeking of effects which were really not found." Visit to University Last January, when Wolfe made his first visit to the Uni versity campus since his gradua tion, he said, "I am sorry that the people in Western North Caro lina did not like my first book, and I hope some day to write one they will like. That comes from my heart. "I never meant to offend anyone with my writings. I bear no ill . will toward any body in North Carolina. It is my home and the longer I stay away the more I love it. I have simply tried to write about life as I've seen it, and if part of it struck me as ugly I've recorded that, too. I have tried to give the whole picture." Last January when Wolfe visited Dean C. P. Spruill, his fraternity brother, the author said, "The University and Chapel Hill have grown so much it's difficult to realize it's the same place. I felt like I was com ing into West Philadelphia. ' But the village atmosphere still pre dominates and I'm mighty glad. Some day, maybe soon, I plan to come back here to settle down and I'll probably be married then." Second Book "Of Time and The River," his second book, appeared in 1936. This volume was cut from 750, 000 words to 450,000. He plan ned "October Fair," "The Hills Beyond Pentland," "The Death of the Enemy" and "Pacific End" to complete his saga of youth. His first novel received the second Pulitzer award of the year, and his short story, "A Portrait of Bascom Hawke," won, along with a short story by John Herrmann, the second Scribner's magazine $5,000 long story contest. The author wrote feverishly, on large sheets of yellow paper, in pencil and in great cloth bound ledgers tearing out the unnumbered sheets as he filled them. He preferred to stand up while writing "Because if WELCOME FACULTY AND STUDENTS We aim to give you prompt efficient service which will show our ap preciation of your patronage. MODEL MARKET AND GROCERY "Where Service Is a Saving" PHONE 7041 or 7051 you're sitting down, you have to get up so often to walk around." One visitor, on finding table, desk, chairs, couch covered with papers, said, "But, Tom, where do you write?" Tom replied, "You see that Frigidaire? Well, that's where I write." Numerous Short Stories Besides his two famous novels, Thomas Wolfe published "From Death To Morning," a collection of imagistic stories, essays, com ments, and reflections, and num erous short stories for Scrib ner's and American Mercury such as "Web of Earth," "Boom Town," and '-'The Sun and The Rain." 'Wolfe was discovered by Max well Perclius, editor of Charles Scribner's Sons. His first novel was received enthusiastically in this country, and in England, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the Scandinavian countries. Sinclair Lewis said of Wolfe's first book, "He may have a chance to be the greatest Ameri can writer ... In fact I don't see why he should not be one of the greatest world writers." The London Times said Wolfe "is genuinely -extending the bound aries of the novel," and Carl Van Doren called the author "The Walt Whitman of the no velists." Robert Penn War ren, critic, said he possessed the "instinct of the poet as well as on a large scale many of the gifts of the novelist." 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