Donald Frank Rose

Donald Frank Rose (June 29, 1890 – February 7, 1964) was an American newspaper columnist, lecturer, and author.

[2] He later observed[3] that it was a good place to be born an Englishman, as his birthplace on Wilfred Terrace was but three miles from Glastonbury Tor.

He crossed the Atlantic in the Autumn of 1908 on the USS Saint Paul, but he was seasick and singularly unimpressed with the seaworthiness of the vessel.

[8]" At that point he turned instead to teaching and writing to support his growing family;[9] for on June 13, 1914, he had married Marjorie Wells and over the next 17 years they had twelve children.

He began publishing his own magazine, Stuff and Nonsense, in 1925, with lighthearted and humorous reflections on the challenges of day-to-day life.

Eventually, at about the time that the morning and Sunday editions merged with the Philadelphia Inquirer, the column went to daily in the Evening Public Ledger.