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Dark-eyed Adela Velarde was 14 when she left Ciudad Juárez to join the army of General Venustiano Carranza. She became a nurse. Dressed in a green uniform cut from the curtains of a Pullman car, she rode through the Mexican Revolution on a grey hospital train under the watchful eye of a veteran head nurse named Leonor Villegas de Manon...
...novels (TIME, June 24, 1946), seems to have written this psycho-thriller with his left foot. A khamseen howls for days in Cairo, wearing tempers thin as the hot, gritty sand seeps through the doors and windows of the Pension Malika Farida. On the fifth morning of the storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile. How did she die and why did she smile? Original Sin explores this problem amid swirls of windblown sand and snarls of plot typical of Cosmopolitan magazine fiction-which...
...Contact With Reality." The greatest of these, and the oldest (53) hand at the game was Adela. The Hearst people had drafted her to give the Overell story the cozy, corny touch she had applied to the Lindbergh and Weyerhaeuser kidnapings, the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, the death of Rudy Valentino. Hearst papers the U.S. over spread her words in big type. Excerpts...
What Beulah needed, Adela decided, was her mother: "Someone who could say to her, 'Louise . . . you ought not to sit there in a bright, striped blue-green dress with your arms bare to the shoulder . . . your arms aren't your best point . . . they look too strong...
Sweeping Thought. After eight days of thoughts like these, Adela pleaded with her readers to bear with her: "These are the doldrums of jury selection. . . . Through the jammed courtroom you can feel a thought sweeping. What are we doing here? What's the matter with our world . . .? What's the matter with everybody?" Whatever was the matter with the rest of the world, things would presumably look up for Adela, as soon as Beulah and Bud took the stand...