Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Whodunit Authoress Craig Rice (Home Sweet Homicide) was sued for divorce by her fourth husband, Writer Lawrence Lipton. Said Lipton: "It was murder. I could never get a decent night's sleep...
Calling All Europeans. Serious, middle-aging (38) Editor Parsons, who "was thrown out of Harvard on his ear" (says Parsons Sr.) for failing to study, was the able wartime chief of the Tub's London Bureau. A Francophile like his father, he lives with his authoress wife (Drue Leyton Tartière, The House Near Paris) in an apartment whose windows look out on the Cathedral of Notre Dame...
Died. Ernest Thompson Seton, 86, British-born, Canada-reared naturalist-artist-author (Wild Animals I Have Known, Trail of the Sandhill Stag, etc.), father of Authoress Anya Seton (Dragon-wyck); in Seton Village, N. Mex. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...MacDonald, whose airy literary omelet is the nation's favorite dish, got a deep bow from her adopted state of Washington. The governor, the mayor and the president of the state Farmers' Association were among the benders-from-the-waist at eating and oratorical festivities in Seattle. Authoress MacDonald watched what she ate; after five years of staggering headaches she had discovered the trouble: she was allergic to eggs...
...year-old scholar-gypsy of the intelligentsia whose "novel" of suburban sex life (Memoirs of Hecate County) has been a scandalous success, got dug into himself by Manhattan tabloids. Court records showed that he had been successfully sued last March for separation by Wife No. 3: left-wing gypsy authoress Mary McCarthy, whose scandalous storybook, The Company She Keeps, included one called Cruel and Barbarous Treatment. Said she, she had received "abusive treatment" from Critic Wilson, cited the time he had kicked her out of bed. She said she complained the following morning ("I won't stand for this...