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(See Cover) The green phone - phone-green to match the office walls - rang imperiously. New York City, said the long-distance operator, was calling Mr. James Reston, and in a moment Mr. Reston, Washington correspond ent of the New York Times, was talking to Adlai Stevenson. The titular head of...
Back in England, Ellis toyed with the idea of entering the Anglican ministry, but lost his faith and then decided to become a physician, which he eventually did. He became absorbed in a cult, the Hinton circle. Its late founder, James Hinton, had been a blend of crackpot and sexpot...
Died. Lawrence Richey, 74, onetime journalist, tight-lipped secretary and longtime confidant to President Herbert Hoover, who as a special agent assigned to the U.S. Secret Service suggested that J. Edgar Hoover might make a good Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; while flying home to Washington after his...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Agostino Gemelli, 81, Roman Catholic theologian who served (1936-59) as president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, wrote prolifically on matters of health and morals, flayed Freud and denied the possibility of extraterrestrial life, was a confidant to Pope Pius XI ; in Milan, Italy.
Confidant of F. Scott Fitzgerald and an inquisitive observer of many matters political, social, and literary, Wilson began his writing career as a reporter on the old New York Evening Sun in 1916.