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Dark, dashing, Mayfairy M.P. Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid spent the first year of the war shepherding refugee British children between Doris Duke Cromwell's New Jersey, Rhode Island, North Carolina and Hawaiian estates. Last autumn, after criticism in his constituency got pretty hot, he went home. Last week, he filed suit in London High Court to have the $20,000 a year he gets from the wife he divorced for adultery in 1939 upped to an annual...
Since last autumn, English music has been backed by the masses...
...fight is military know-how. In 1914 the Serbs, though outnumbered in population twelve-to-one, in military strength at least three-to-two, repelled three separate Austrian offensives. When they were finally broken by Field Marshal August von Mackensen's heavy Austrian-German-Bulgarian drive in the autumn of 1915, they were riddled by typhus and so short of munitions that their northern Army ran out of cartridges during the retreat. The retreat was no rout. It was a desperate withdrawal across Albania, in which a few thousand men held Babuna Pass for several days against...
...gave a watercolor and drawing show in Manhattan, sold a few pictures (top: $15). Painter Heliker's $2,000 prize canvas, a hardbitten, blocky Vermont landscape, had been put on sale in Manhattan last autumn at $125, but nobody had wanted...
...committee still has not recognized her existence. She had the misfortune to publish Barren Ground the same year that Sinclair Lewis published Arrowsmith which won the prize. In the next nine years the Pulitzer committee passed over three of her best books in favor of Bromfield's Early Autumn, La Farge's Laughing Boy, Stribling's The Store. Novelist Glasgow went right on writing, revising, perfecting the series of novels which she had projected at the beginning of the Century - "a social history of Virginia...