Word: adela
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FIRST STEP UP TOWARD HEAVEN (293 pp.)-Adela Rogers St. Johns-Prentice Hall...
...First Step Up Toward Heaven, Author Adela Rogers St. Johns, a loyal plotholder in Forest Lawn, has provided a gushing biography of Hubert Lewright Eaton, 78, the man who made Forest Lawn what it is today. As Biographer St. Johns, 65, sees her subject, Eaton is not only the Henry Ford of the business, a man who has "revolutionized cemetery development throughout the English-speaking world," but also a major prophet who has helped to change mankind's conception of death...
...intuitive ability to smell out sensational news and get it covered has given "the Examiner's news columns a high luster. In the still unsolved Black Dahlia killing and the Overell murder, Richardson was usually a leap ahead of the cops, often brought in authors such as Adela Rogers St. Johns to make his stories match his dripping red headlines...
Today, 51-year-old Albert Namatjira is one of Australia's most popular and successful artists. His bright, pleasant watercolors of the rugged scenery around Hermannsburg sell in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaïde and Brisbane for as much as $170, and last year he earned about $5,000 from the products of his brush...
Envenomed by repression, all the sisters fall madly in love with Pepe El Romano, who is engaged to the eldest, Angustias. Night after night the youngest, Adela, slips outside to make love to Pepe in a barn. The ugliest sister, Martirio, informs Bernarda. In an outburst of fury the widow shoots Pepe. Adela hangs herself...