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Died. Maria Nys Huxley, 55, wife of British-born Poet-Essayist-Novelist Aldous Huxley (Point Counter Point, Brave New World); of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...Born. To Dawn Addams. 24, undulous British-born cinemactress (The Moon Is Blue), and Prince Vittorio Emanuele Massimo of Roccasecca de' Volsci, 43, Italian gentleman-farmer: their first child, a son. Weight...
Dear Time-Reader: in our SPORT section this week, we present an unusual four-page portfolio of bird paintings in full color. They were done (some especially for TIME, the others for Manhattan's Linlo House) by British-born Dennis Puleston, who has led a spectacularly adventurous life for a man devoted to such a gentle pursuit-so spectacular that I should like to tell you more about...
Died. James Hilton, 54, smoothly sentimental, bestselling, British-born novelist; of cancer; in Long Beach, Calif. A published novelist at 20, Hilton supported himself for eleven years as a lecturer at Cambridge, free-lance newspaper feature writer and book reviewer while he perfected his seamless style, finally scored in 1934 with Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The success of Chips led readers and reviewers back to Lost Horizon, written several months earlier, and soon "Shangri-La," the novel's Tibetan Utopia, became an international byword for any man's place of retreat from the world, including Franklin Roosevelt...
...Harvard University will have a new chief preacher when the fall term begins: British-born Dr. George Arthur Buttrick, 62, ex-president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ and pastor since 1927 of Manhattan's 3,000-member Madison...