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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that doctors have made it possible for people to live longer, their next problem is to make old age tolerable. This week, in Live Long and Like It (Public Affairs Committee; 20?), a doctor whose specialty is old age suggested a few helpful hints. The author: Dr. C. Ward Crampton, 70, chairman of the New York County Medical Society's committee on geriatrics and gerontology...
Born. To Russel McKinley ("Buck") Grouse, 55, pun -loving half of the writing-producing Lindsay & Grouse team (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace, State of the Union), and second wife Anna Erskine Grouse, 32, daughter of Author John Erskine: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Lindsay Ann Grouse. Weight...
...appears to have half a dozen plots, and sometimes none at all. Dozens of sharply drawn characters move through it, their lives intertwined in frantic quests for visas, underground resistance, concentration-camp ordeals, involved political discussions and harried interludes of personal life. With a strong awareness of social gradations, Author Malaquais shows Marseille under the Vichy regime as divided into four groups: the scum, the innocents, the resisters, and the victims...
...Author. Jean Malaquais is a short, tense French socialist. He is the author of a novel, Men from Nowhere, which won the Renaudot Prize in Paris, and of an account of his experiences in the French army, War Diary, which André Gide hailed as "an extraordinary document on the collapse of France...
Professor Fairbank, an international authority on China and Chinese problems, is the author of the forthcoming book, "The United States and China." During the war he served on the staffs of OSS and OWI, and in 1945 and 1946 was director of U.S. Information Service in China...