Word: conrad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University Theater (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness...
Married. George Sanders, 42, cinemactor (The Moon and Sixpence, Forever Amber); and Sari Gabor ("Zsazsa") Hilton, thirtyish, "Miss Hungary" of 1936, former wife of Hotel Magnate Conrad N. Hilton; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...
...poverty . . . The girl Leigh [Actress Vivien Leigh] was round today [and] I thought of walking . . . with her to attract attention to myself . . . Was [Rilke] a poet? ... I am not certain whether Picasso is the name of the latest car or a horse . . . Burne-Jones was a great artist . . . [Joseph] Conrad [once] challenged me to a duel. Unfortunately, [H.G.] Wells got in the way, otherwise Conrad would have taken his place among the saints . . . When I was a little boy I was always playing the devil. My chief delight was to paint . . . walls . . . with pictures of Mephistopheles . . . As a child dreams...
There was no doubt in the mind of the report's author, Dr. Kitty Kate Conrad, 39, mother of two. Said she: "Even when one has seen 300 or more confinements, as I have, the severity of labor pains comes as an intense surprise. They are more excruciating than anything you can possibly imagine. I am certainly in favor of spreading the use of relieving drugs in childbirth as widely as possible." But men are not the only ones who pooh-pooh birth pangs, according to Dr. Conrad. Among the toughest opponents of pain relief in Britain are midwives...
Died. Crosby Gaige, 66, witty bibliophile and gourmet who found time to indulge in his hobby of printing fine limited editions (Joyce, O'Flaherty, Conrad) and writing books (Crosby Gaige' s Cocktail Guide and Ladies' Companion, Footlights and Highlights) in addition to co-producing such Broadway hits as Within the Law (starring Jane Cowl, 1912), Smilin' Through (1919) and Coquette (starring Helen Hayes, 1927); of a heart ailment; in Peekskill...