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There he went to study the language, managed to get himself beaten up and bounced out of a beer hall for uncomplimentary references to Adolf Hitler: "They got me all wrong in that pub." He also met and married 18-year-old Clara Ungerland, blonde, violin-playing daughter of a Cologne basket weaver. She died a month later. O'Nolan returned to Eire, and never mentions...
...Clara Bow, the cinema's "It" girl of the late '20s, was recovering from a nervous breakdown on the California ranch where she lives with her husband Rex Bell...
...Clara Bryant Ford, wife of 79-year-old Motorman Henry, reaching 76 (on their 55th wedding anniversary), gave her recipe for happiness: "Lead as natural and as kindly a life...
...crew collected $61,000; he got all the rest. This kind of money has made Fisherman Vilicich the next thing to an economic royalist: he owns his ship (value: $30,000), a share in a San Francisco sardine plant, a comfortable, two-story house, sends his son to Santa Clara University...
Bayreuth By-Passed. Though she sings her Brünnhildes and Isoldes like a veteran of Bayreuth, Helen Traubel has been outside the U.S. only twice in her life: on tours to Canada and Cuba. Her father ran a drugstore in St. Louis. Her mother, Clara Stuhr, was famous among the Midwest's German-American singing societies for her soprano. Traubel herself got an early reputation as the best belly-flopper among Forest Park's sledders, a massive destroyer of chocolate ice-cream sodas, and an almost maniacal fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. At 15, with...