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Funster William Doyler '53 thinks the porters "have been doing a good job." "Mine forgets to empty my ash trays now and then," he continued, "but everything in the room is kept clean...
Previously, only petty stealings such as ash trays, hoop races, and grass skirts have been reported. If the owl is not returned however, Wellesley threatens to hold no more mixers. It may even cancel teas. All it wants to know, obviously...
...Hollywood. This wonderful binge of laughs and coin could not last forever; the depression hit Broadway, too. Lahr's wife was suffering from a mental illness and after painful years their marriage was annulled. He was married again, to a softspoken, ash-blonde ex-showgirl named Mildred Schroeder. Meanwhile he had headed west to try Hollywood for size...
...unique in its enormity?" Journalist Willi Frischauer, a Viennese who went to Britain as a foreign correspondent in 1935 and has lived there ever since, gives some of the answers in an admirable, well-documented biography. Not only has Frischauer pondered Goering's career from womb to ash can; he has also won the confidence of such key figures as Goering's widow, his valet and some of his military aides. The result is popular biography at its best...
Died. John Sloan, 80, dean of U.S. artists; of cancer; in Hanover, N.H. When he began painting in the 1900s, Sloan's earthy Manhattan neighborhood scenes were thought coarse and ugly. He was placed by the fussier critics in the "Ash Can School," did not sell a painting until he was 49. Today his works hang in the best museums, and for their richness in both color and local color (McSorley's Bar; The City from Greenwich Village) they rank with the best paintings ever done in the U.S. A garrulous little man with a long, bony face...