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Lucille Langhanke was born in Quincy, Ill. 30 years ago. When she grew up pretty, her parents started to train her for the films. Running second to Clara Bow in a beauty contest, Lucille went West. In 1925 Douglas Fairbanks chose her for leading lady in Don Q. Thereafter, as Mary Astor, she enjoyed a profitable, if not sensational, cinema career. In 1930 Miss Astor's first husband, Director Kenneth Hawks, was killed in a plane smash. Recovering from this shock, Miss Astor was attended by Dr. Thorpe, a dressy Hollywood gynecologist, whom she married within a year...
Enrico Fermi was born in Rome 34 years ago, studied at the University of Pisa, has taught and researched at the University of Rome since 1927. Short, wiry, dapper, cheerful, he is married, has a 5-year-old daughter, likes to ski, play tennis. Some years ago he perceived that when a nuclear impact knocks a neutron and a positron out of an electron, there is a mysterious disappearance of energy. He surmised that the excess energy rode away on a little particle which, now generally accepted as theoretically necessary, still eludes observation. It is because of Fermi that this...
Typist Up. Tall, slim, magnetic, Will Clayton was born 56 years ago on a cotton farm near Tupelo, Miss. His father was a railroad contractor. Son Will left school after the eighth grade, studied shorthand. One of his first customers was William Jennings Bryan, who made him retype a speech because the margins were too narrow. At 15 his astonishing stenographic skill landed him a job in a St. Louis cotton firm. Soon he went to Manhattan as secretary to a cotton man named Lamar Fleming, father of his brilliant young partner. Will Clayton was a model youth. He never...
...Author. The life of Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette reads like a scenario for one of her novels. She was born 63 years ago in Burgundy, the daughter of a Captain in the Zouaves who was an unsuccessful politician and a student of military affairs. A star pupil in school, she read constantly, wrote compositions "as easily as one would fry an egg," did not realize the character of her talent until later. At 20 she married a 34-year-old author of popular romances who had hoped she would help him socially, found that she was too outspoken...
...Born in Helsingfors in 1862, Dr. Westermarck began his career with The Origin of Human Marriage, published in 1889, has continued it with The History of Human Marriage, The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco, Ethical Relativity. Professor at the University of London for 23 years, he has gained his reputation on the strength of his careful scholarship and his broad liberal views, and despite his tendency to speak in platitudes...