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Divorced. Conrad Thibault, 34, opera & radio baritone who as a choirboy was encouraged by the late Calvin Coolidge to make singing his career; by Elinor Kendall Thibault, 29; in Reno, Nev. Immediately after the divorce, Mrs. Thibault married Frank James Welton, 23, of New York...
...write books with titles like The Fate of Man has been the fate of Herbert George Wells, one of the chief planetary and interplanetary influences of his era. When Wells's worlds are too much with them, modern critics are inclined to forget that Joseph Conrad admired his prose, that T. S. Eliot esteemed his criticism, and that the imagination he brought to popularizing science was a vigorous and useful article...
...where he belongs," to Father No. 1, who never did run out anyway, is still a city editor. Good shot: the Professor's harum-scarum daughter (Brenda Joyce), who calls all her father's students "Fathead," hearing that Fatheads David and pal have read Joseph Conrad's Victory. Daughter: "Smart fatheads...
Southern California, scene of the mighty creative labors of Screenland, is not notable for cultivation of the more modest arts and crafts. Walter Conrad Arensberg, one of the quietest and most discriminating U. S. collectors of modern art, has said that in Hollywood he enjoys the most perfect vacuum America can produce. A symbol of this condition has long been the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. Supported by the County of Los Angeles, it has boasted a beautiful lawn, a superb collection of fossils, and, since the last one was fired early in Depression, no art curator...
...perhaps most noted for one of the least-heard radio features in the world-regular Far North news and general program broadcasts in English, French, Icelandic, Danish and Eskimo. The station was originally (as was KDKA) a gimmick in the garage of Westinghouse's Dr. Frank Conrad. The place had so much reverberation that Dr. Conrad pitched a tent inside, over the works-a sort of first radio soundproofing. It was 8XS that transmitted the first international broadcast, to Europe via England, on New Year's Eve in 1923. Henceforth WSXK's audiences will have to identify...