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GEORGE, an American journalist and author, born in Indiana in 1866 .

He has published "Arte: a Story of the Streets and Town"; "Pink Marsh" (1897), a dialect story, etc. Later he established a reputation as a satirical humorist by his "Fables in Slang" and wrote many successful plays and musical comedies, such as "The Sho-Gun," "Slim Princess" and "Sultan of Sulu," etc. He was made a trustee of Purdue University and a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

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