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Died. Betty MacDonald, 49, hen-raising, hen-hating ranchwife-authoress of the nonfiction bestseller (1945) The Egg and I (later adapted for the movies and TV), whose success egged her on to write others (The Plague and I, Onions in the Stew); of cancer; in Seattle...
Deprived of absolution-there was a queue at the box, and Verlaine had never had to wait for anything before-he decided to be redeemed by the love of a pure angel. For this he selected 16-year-old Mathilde Maute, prim and pretty authoress of a poem beginning, "How powerful is a woman's tear!" Verlaine so worshiped her that he stopped going to brothels, and when their marriage had to be postponed, suffered what he perplexedly called "a disappointment that one might almost describe as carnal...
Died. Craig Rice (Georgiana Randolph Craig), 49, bestselling authoress of about 25 whodunits (Having Wonderful Crime, To Catch a Thief, Trial by Fury) and a handful of screen plays (Home Sweet Homicide, Underworld Story), whose hard-drinking, hard-loving, hard-dying heroes reflected their creator's liquid-decked (she was committed to California's Camarillo State Hospital in 1949 for chronic alcoholism), love-torn (five times married) and death-daring (she twice threatened suicide) Bohemian existence; of cause under investigation; in Los Angeles...
...regardless of fashion, she wore her hair pulled down over her forehead. Hundreds of photographers presented her to the world masked by her "leafage"-until one day, on her 80th birthday, Vogue's Irving Penn took "a staggering photograph" that left France's greatest authoress "exposed before posterity" (see cut). As if really seeing her for the first time, Colette's husband, Maurice Goudeket, marveled at what lay beneath the leafage-"a huge, domed forehead, like Beethoven's . . . bare, vast, significant, the forehead of a genius...
Goodyear Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). John Van Druten's The Princess Back Home, with Celeste Holm as an authoress in search of love (color...