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Divorced. Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate, 22, fourth daughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo and granddaughter of the late Woodrow Wilson; from Rafael Lopez de Onate, 41. Philippine-born cinemactor; in Los Angeles. Charge: nonsupport...
This was bad news not only to helium-hungry Germany but to brave, energetic, 45-year-old Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, Swedish-descended, Chicago-born airship enthusiast and chief of Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station. Last week...
Fifty-eight-year-old Jacob Epstein, radical, Manhattan-born British sculptor whose monolithic works have created periodic storms among England's art critics, was awarded his first honorary degree (LL. D.), by Scotland's Aberdeen University. Said Aberdeen in honoring him: "The works of Mr. Epstein have sometimes evoked a lively criticism, which has died away as the critics themselves came to learn or came to be ignored...
...playing of a piece of music that everybody knows. Out of family conflicts, the War, Depression, the two families produce one unhappy intermarriage, one well-known liberal, one feminist, one famous artist, one War victim, one monk. The third generation turns out a talented left-wing artist, an illegitimate-born Communist, an avowed Fascist. Despite this disturbing picture of British family history, Author Bentley takes a calm view of the future: If half of the preceding generation muddled through, reasons one of her characters, why fear the fate of the next...
...Born Barney Isaacs in London's Whitechapel, Barnato became a juggler, comedian, boxer, diamond merchant and eventually financial master of the South African mining fields. He was first a rival and then an ally of the imperious, imperialistic Cecil Rhodes. Author Lewinsohn's account makes Barnato out a kindly, comical, shrewd, enterprising fellow whose great achievement was amalgamating scattered mines and who was overshadowed as soon as Rhodes appeared with his bold political adventures and schemes for establishing a diamond monopoly. Sometimes Barnato's democratic traits popped out unexpectedly (when a society lady asked...