Word: alec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alec (the "I" of the story) is a rich man's son, nearing 40 but still with no visible means of support other than periodic parental checks. A member of The Brook, most select of Manhattan clubs (where there are "always amusing fellows . . . ready for anything"), Alec divides his time between his country estate and the pleasures of town. He is married to a beautiful wife, but they are just pals. Alec not only has good looks (he was called "Adonis" at Yale but was somehow popular), but also a fatal charm. He knows a lot about animals, rides...
...looks deceptively like Alice's White Rabbit dressed up for the party, but his writing is astutely stoat-like. His father is chairman of Chapman & Hall, London publishing firm. Evelyn went to Oxford, then followed his older brother into authorship. At Oxford he read history, dabbled in art. Alec Waugh had made a precocious splash with The Loom of Youth (1917); Evelyn obliterated the ripples with Decline & Fall. Now at 31, one of the smartest of London's smart young literary men, he has followed the fashion of his set by 1) getting a divorce. 2) joining...
CARLYLE IN OLD AGE (1865-1881)-David Alec Wilson and David Wilson MacArthur-Button ($5). The sixth and final volume of Wilson's monumental biography of Thomas Carlyle, a lifetime's labor of love completed after Wilson's death last year from his notes and material by his nephew, MacArthur...
...Christie's auction rooms, London, a set of self-sketches by Charlie Chaplin, once the property of the late Sir William Orpen, was bought for $18 by Sir Alec Martin, Christie's partner...
...Died. Alec B. Francis, 63, oldtime stage actor, film actor since 1910; after an operation; in Hollywood. British-born, he deserted the law for which he had been educated, played in stock companies, served as a nurse in the Spanish-American War, tried farming in the Midwest, drifted into the early cinema. A pious churchman in private life, he played wise, kind, whimsical oldsters (Outward Bound, Arrowsmith, The Case of Sergeant Grischa...