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Married. Clark Gable, 54, durable Hollywood screen lover (Mogambo, Soldier of Fortune); and Kay Williams Spreckels, 37, onetime model and Hollywood starlet turned socialite millionheiress; he for the fifth time (his most recent: British-born Sylvia Hawkes, onetime Lady Ashley, who divorced him in 1952), she for the fourth (her most recent: Sugar Heir Adolph Spreckels Jr., whom she divorced in 1952 after accusing him of beating her with her own slipper); in Minden...
Under the lovely searching of his voice, the whole wild farrago ("Look, look, the dusk is growing! My branches lofty are taking root. And my cold cher's gone ashley. Fieluhr? Filou! What age is at? It saon is late") pacifies into meanings felt if not altogether known. The passage is a rueful promise of what might have been if Joyce had lived to read the whole of his titanic rune...
...step down to his familiar post as minority leader. From the opening-day scramble Rayburn took time out for an act of simple kindness. With his office full of Congressmen, job-seekers and admirers, Rayburn got an apologetic telephone call from Ohio's freshman Representative Thomas Ludlow Ashley. Ashley's 87-year-old grandmother was in Washington to see young (32) Lud sworn in. For more than 40 years Sam Rayburn had been one of her political heroes, and she wanted to meet him. Said Sam: "Delighted. Bring her down." He talked to the old lady for nearly...
Married. Sylvia, Lady Ashley, 44, London chorus girl turned socialite; and Prince Dimitri Djordjadze, 53, imperial Russian cavalryman turned Manhattan hotel executive (the Ambassador) ; she for the fifth time (among her others: Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; Clark Gable), he for the third; in Fort...
Funds are being solicited from four groups, the Class of 1918, the University faculty, Adams House staff, students and alumni, and other friends. The entire fund drive is headed by a member of the Class of '18, Frank Ashley...