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Martha Gellhorn, 36, gilt-haired, restless novelist-correspondent (for Collier's), wife of Collier's War Correspondent Ernest Hemingway, driving between Toulouse and Paris, lost control of her car after a blowout, dived over a 16-ft. embankment, cracked...
...past had been pretty darn fine, at that. Lawrenceville and Princeton and M.I.T." --Collier's, December...
This recent observation by Indian Affairs Commissioner John Collier drew editorial comment from two widely disparate sources last week. The New York Herald Tribune cheerfully declared that at least an Indian President would have dignity, a sly and refreshing humor. Wrote Charles Round Low Cloud, longtime (since 1919) conductor of "The Indian News" column in the Black River Falls (Wis.) Banner-Journal: "Yes. It would take a good thinking man because some man you will think always a good fellow everywhere...
...Press. ... A new U.S. at War writer (also a Nieman Fellow) was our Seattle correspondent in 1937, left to take his bride on a pre-Hitler honeymoon that included almost every country in Europe, later worked as assistant city editor on the Seattle Times and as Army correspondent for Collier's in seven western states. . . . And still another new writer was head of our Detroit News Bureau, a job he prepared for by 12 years' work on the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Detroit Mirror, and the Detroit Times (in his spare time recently he turned out a mystery story...
Divorced. Herbert Asbury, 53, slummer in the pasts of U.S. cities (The Gangs of New York, The Barbary Coast, The French Quarter), associate editor of Collier's; by Helen Hahn Asbury, 41, Manhattan advertising executive, sister of repatriated Orientalist Emily Hahn; after 16 years of marriage; in Mexico...