Son of Finis King & Ethel Rose Riley Farr
A tribute to him in the Princeston Alumni Weekly Reads:
"Finis Farr lost his final battle against a failing heart at age 77 in a Portland, ME., hospital on Jan. 3, 1982, and one of 1926's most important literary lights has gone out. He was a successful writer and editor for newspapers, magazines, radio, television and motion pictures, had a distinguished military career in WW II, served for several years in the CIA, and wrote seven biographies, a novel, and a social study of Chicago.
He was a native of Lebanon, Tn., the son of Dr. Finis K. Farr, Presbyterian minister and Professor of Theology at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, and Ethel Riley Farr. At Princeton he majored in English and was a mainstay of the "Tiger" Board.
He was one of the pioneers in the early days of radio, and was author of one of the landmark multi-part programs, "The Tiral of Vivian Ware," in the Ferdinand Pecora played the District Attorney and George Gordon Balle the Defense Attorney, parts they played in real life. He wrote such populart programs as "Mr. District Attorney,: and was one of the writer-producters of "The March of Time."
He enlisted as a private in the Army in WW II, served in the China-Burma-India theater under Vinegar Joe Stillwell, and came out in 1946 as a Major with a bronze star. He served with local guerrilla forces behind the Japanese lines and on the first convoy over the Burma Road in addition to campaigns with British, Indian and Chinese forces.
In 1959 he turned to serious writing. He wrote numerous articles for popular magazines, a novel, "The Elephant Valley," biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frank Lloyd Wright, John O'Hara, Margaret Mitchell, Jack Johnson, Westbrook Pegler, and Eddie Rickenbacker. In addition he wrote a social history of Chicago.
He is survived by his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dyer of South Waterford, Me.; two nephews, Matthew F. Dyer of Augusta, Me., and Samuel N. Dyer of Thomasville, Ga., and a niece, Alison Dyer of Rockland Ma. The calss of 1926 shares their grief, no one more than the writer of this memorial, for Finis and I roomed together in West College Junior and Senior years, and remained fast friend form then on.
...Glen Perry, for the Class of 1926
A tribute to him in the Princeston Alumni Weekly Reads:
"Finis Farr lost his final battle against a failing heart at age 77 in a Portland, ME., hospital on Jan. 3, 1982, and one of 1926's most important literary lights has gone out. He was a successful writer and editor for newspapers, magazines, radio, television and motion pictures, had a distinguished military career in WW II, served for several years in the CIA, and wrote seven biographies, a novel, and a social study of Chicago.
He was a native of Lebanon, Tn., the son of Dr. Finis K. Farr, Presbyterian minister and Professor of Theology at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, and Ethel Riley Farr. At Princeton he majored in English and was a mainstay of the "Tiger" Board.
He was one of the pioneers in the early days of radio, and was author of one of the landmark multi-part programs, "The Tiral of Vivian Ware," in the Ferdinand Pecora played the District Attorney and George Gordon Balle the Defense Attorney, parts they played in real life. He wrote such populart programs as "Mr. District Attorney,: and was one of the writer-producters of "The March of Time."
He enlisted as a private in the Army in WW II, served in the China-Burma-India theater under Vinegar Joe Stillwell, and came out in 1946 as a Major with a bronze star. He served with local guerrilla forces behind the Japanese lines and on the first convoy over the Burma Road in addition to campaigns with British, Indian and Chinese forces.
In 1959 he turned to serious writing. He wrote numerous articles for popular magazines, a novel, "The Elephant Valley," biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frank Lloyd Wright, John O'Hara, Margaret Mitchell, Jack Johnson, Westbrook Pegler, and Eddie Rickenbacker. In addition he wrote a social history of Chicago.
He is survived by his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dyer of South Waterford, Me.; two nephews, Matthew F. Dyer of Augusta, Me., and Samuel N. Dyer of Thomasville, Ga., and a niece, Alison Dyer of Rockland Ma. The calss of 1926 shares their grief, no one more than the writer of this memorial, for Finis and I roomed together in West College Junior and Senior years, and remained fast friend form then on.
...Glen Perry, for the Class of 1926
Son of Finis King & Ethel Rose Riley Farr
A tribute to him in the Princeston Alumni Weekly Reads:
"Finis Farr lost his final battle against a failing heart at age 77 in a Portland, ME., hospital on Jan. 3, 1982, and one of 1926's most important literary lights has gone out. He was a successful writer and editor for newspapers, magazines, radio, television and motion pictures, had a distinguished military career in WW II, served for several years in the CIA, and wrote seven biographies, a novel, and a social study of Chicago.
He was a native of Lebanon, Tn., the son of Dr. Finis K. Farr, Presbyterian minister and Professor of Theology at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, and Ethel Riley Farr. At Princeton he majored in English and was a mainstay of the "Tiger" Board.
He was one of the pioneers in the early days of radio, and was author of one of the landmark multi-part programs, "The Tiral of Vivian Ware," in the Ferdinand Pecora played the District Attorney and George Gordon Balle the Defense Attorney, parts they played in real life. He wrote such populart programs as "Mr. District Attorney,: and was one of the writer-producters of "The March of Time."
He enlisted as a private in the Army in WW II, served in the China-Burma-India theater under Vinegar Joe Stillwell, and came out in 1946 as a Major with a bronze star. He served with local guerrilla forces behind the Japanese lines and on the first convoy over the Burma Road in addition to campaigns with British, Indian and Chinese forces.
In 1959 he turned to serious writing. He wrote numerous articles for popular magazines, a novel, "The Elephant Valley," biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frank Lloyd Wright, John O'Hara, Margaret Mitchell, Jack Johnson, Westbrook Pegler, and Eddie Rickenbacker. In addition he wrote a social history of Chicago.
He is survived by his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dyer of South Waterford, Me.; two nephews, Matthew F. Dyer of Augusta, Me., and Samuel N. Dyer of Thomasville, Ga., and a niece, Alison Dyer of Rockland Ma. The calss of 1926 shares their grief, no one more than the writer of this memorial, for Finis and I roomed together in West College Junior and Senior years, and remained fast friend form then on.
...Glen Perry, for the Class of 1926
A tribute to him in the Princeston Alumni Weekly Reads:
"Finis Farr lost his final battle against a failing heart at age 77 in a Portland, ME., hospital on Jan. 3, 1982, and one of 1926's most important literary lights has gone out. He was a successful writer and editor for newspapers, magazines, radio, television and motion pictures, had a distinguished military career in WW II, served for several years in the CIA, and wrote seven biographies, a novel, and a social study of Chicago.
He was a native of Lebanon, Tn., the son of Dr. Finis K. Farr, Presbyterian minister and Professor of Theology at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, and Ethel Riley Farr. At Princeton he majored in English and was a mainstay of the "Tiger" Board.
He was one of the pioneers in the early days of radio, and was author of one of the landmark multi-part programs, "The Tiral of Vivian Ware," in the Ferdinand Pecora played the District Attorney and George Gordon Balle the Defense Attorney, parts they played in real life. He wrote such populart programs as "Mr. District Attorney,: and was one of the writer-producters of "The March of Time."
He enlisted as a private in the Army in WW II, served in the China-Burma-India theater under Vinegar Joe Stillwell, and came out in 1946 as a Major with a bronze star. He served with local guerrilla forces behind the Japanese lines and on the first convoy over the Burma Road in addition to campaigns with British, Indian and Chinese forces.
In 1959 he turned to serious writing. He wrote numerous articles for popular magazines, a novel, "The Elephant Valley," biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frank Lloyd Wright, John O'Hara, Margaret Mitchell, Jack Johnson, Westbrook Pegler, and Eddie Rickenbacker. In addition he wrote a social history of Chicago.
He is survived by his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dyer of South Waterford, Me.; two nephews, Matthew F. Dyer of Augusta, Me., and Samuel N. Dyer of Thomasville, Ga., and a niece, Alison Dyer of Rockland Ma. The calss of 1926 shares their grief, no one more than the writer of this memorial, for Finis and I roomed together in West College Junior and Senior years, and remained fast friend form then on.
...Glen Perry, for the Class of 1926
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