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...Author. The serious, sociological tone of Leo Calvin Rosten's study belies his creation of the comic character, Hyman Kaplan, in the New Yorker, where he uses the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross. Polish-born, short, dark-eyed and heavy-lidded, Mr. Rosten at two was taken to Chicago where he soon began to fight poverty with animated ingenuity. A University of Chicago scholarship started his education and he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. After a year of browsing in Europe, unable to find the newspaper job he wanted when he returned to Chicago, Author Rosten lectured in the Midwest...
...Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists (27 churches, 300 members) believe that Adam & Eve were infused with a "good seed" from God; that Eve received a "bad seed" from Satan. Since everyone today is born of either a good seed or a bad seed, and nothing can be done about it, this church does no gospel preaching or missionary work...
...lost Dauphin, sneaked from Paris during the French Revolution. Audubon himself may have thought he was. A vain man, he affected popinjay dress against the dun background of Pennsylvania Quakers, crow's raiment in dandiacal English society. At any rate, his origins were mysterious. He was, perhaps, born in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti) in 1785. Little is known of him before he was 9, when he was legally adopted in France by one Captain Audubon, who said he was the child's father. Variously called Fougere ("Fern"), La Foret, and plain Jean Jacques, the pampered child...
Died. Mrs. Eleanor Selden Washington Howard, 81, great-great-grandniece of George Washington, last of the Washington clan to be born in Mount Vernon; of pneumonia; in Alexandria...
Poet Heine, lover of paradox, led a life full of contradiction. Born in Düsseldorf, 1797 he grew up in a period when libertarianism alternated with the fiercest repression. There was revolution in France, in Germany there were pogroms. Since Heine was a Jew and passionately self-conscious about it, the uncertainty of the atmosphere led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns suspicious and open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. Artistically the most German of Germans, he spent the major part of his creative life in exile. A gallant, he fell finally in love...