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...Civil War. won the first Harper Prize as well as the Pulitzer Prize for 1923. It was Author Wilson's first book. Since then the 54-year-old novelist, once a missionary to India, has written eight other books, married an Englishman, settled in England, switched publishers. This autumn from Doubleday, Doran she will try a literary comeback with a sequel to her first, and still most noteworthy, work...
...city's prostitution was an individualistic enterprise, with a few "bookers" operating small strings of "houses" (apartments). Then various racketeers decided that a handsome profit could be made by assessing each prostitute $10 per week for bail bond, on a guarantee that she would never be jailed. One autumn day Lucania, a gambler and narcotic seller known as "Lucky Luciano" or "Charlie Lucky,"summoned the bondsmen to conference in a Lower East Side restaurant. After a few words with a lieutenant named "Little Davie" Betillo, he turned to the conferees, barked: "You guys are through. I'm giving...
Having backed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence's Arab revolt in the desert, Allenby ran off his climactic campaign in the autumn of 1918. On the actual field of Armageddon, dread coastal plain where St. John the Divine predicted "thunders and lightnings . . . a great earthquake . . . a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent," Allenby fought his greatest battle, won his title, feinting at the Turks' centre with cavalry, rolling up their right with infantry. With the fall of Aleppo and Damascus, the Central Powers were cut off from their allies in the Near...
...decided to get married last September. They got a clean, one-room studio apartment on East 18th Street, sold a little work, saved their empty milk bottles to take back to the delicatessen. Last February Rob Godfrey went on re lief, was put to teaching WPA art classes. Last autumn Rob Godfrey painted a bright portrait of his wife looking attractive and intense in a sport coat and plaid scarf. She thought it was good enough to submit for the National Academy of Design show. He did not. Hadn't they turned down his portrait...
Married- Prince Aly Khan, 24. son& heir of the Rt. Hon. Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah ("The Aga Khan"); and the Hon. Joan Yarde-Buller. 28. divorced last autumn by Thomas Loel E. B. Guinness, brewing scion and swank Conservative member of Parliament, who named Prince Aly as corespondent; in Paris...