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...gossip about F. Marion Crawford was that he read Italian aloud to Mrs. Gardner, Crawford wrote many romantic novels, one concerned with Boston and Mrs. Jack called The American Politician. Van Wyck Brooks had pictured New England after the Civil War as an Indian Summer; Crawford had seasonally pictured this Boston lady as "summer days and flowers and wind-blown water and the happy rustle of spring leaves...
...scarcely recall a time when she was not scribbling something. Her father was an itinerant shipping agent, and she spent her childhood in Japanese and Philippine hotels. To her, hair-raising suspense stories suggest home and hearth because that was usually all her mother could find to read aloud at bedtime. She has written everything: stories for Sunday-school papers and pulp magazines, juvenile and teen-age books as well as novels. She hates housework and has no hobbies, preferring to sit at the typewriter all day writing fiction or dealing with a huge correspondence. Outside, her husband, a retired...
...feeling now that "I have come to the dank and lightless bottom of the well." Of the 941 letters that Hoppe had received last week about the column, 923 praised it. Wrote a housewife in Hollister, Calif.: "I asked my 12-year-old son to read it aloud and had to quickly leave the room because some kids cannot understand what makes otherwise steady grownups burst into tears." A former Army colonel found himself harboring the "nightmarish feelings you've put down about wanting the enemy...
LINGERING "LOOK-SAY." In the new Scott Foresman program, the children begin with simple pictures and simple captions ("A girl got on a bus"). Told that the words say what the picture shows, the kids have little trouble "reading" the sentence aloud. Under the teacher's guidance, they soon recognize and recall more new words each...
Died. Leland Hayward, 68, flamboyant Broadway producer; of a stroke; in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Hayward's career began in the 1920s, when he produced some 20 feature films. "They stunk," he said, and people agreed. In the mid-'20s, a nightclub owner wished aloud that he had an attraction "like the Astaires," adding that he would pay $4,000 for them. Hayward promptly turned agent and arranged the deal. "I decided this was my line of work," he said after collecting his 10% commission. After that, he steered the careers of James Stewart, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Henry...