Word: conway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Green Light from Reno. In 1937, when love bloomed, he, Michael Conway, an editor of the now defunct New Masses, was writing a book on U.S. labor leaders. She, Ruth McKenney, was writing a history of the Ohio rubber workers. The two met on a green hillside near New Milford, Conn, to exchange data...
Eleven days later Miss McKenney became the second Mrs. Michael Lyman- "Conway" proving to be only a penname adopted by radical Mike out of deference to his wealthy family ("A scion, eh?" whistled Sister Eileen: "Remind me to look twice at the next New Masses editor we rope in").* The happy couple settled down in Greenwich Village, where life would have been sheer heaven if only the first Mrs. Lyman, who was "tall, willowy and beautiful" and possessed "seven million dollars, strictly in government bonds," hadn't given vent to the "strong streak of dog-in-the-manger...
...Readers who look twice will find that in real life Scion Mike is neither Lyman nor Conway. Both pseudonyms conceal San Francisco-born Richard Bransten, better known to New Masses readers as "Bruce Minton...
Tomorrow members of the team will compete at three other invitation meets: the Brattlebore 60 Meter Open Invitation Jump; the Gibson Trophy Giant Slalom at North Conway; and the Winnepesankee Giant Slalom at the Mt. Belknap ski area near Laconia...
Even before World War I it was plain that the artistocratic Richardsons had run their course. When daughter Caroline suddenly married Jim Conway, a poor-but-ambitious townsman with super sex appeal, it seemed like a signal for the whole family's disintegration. Then old Mr. Richardson died ingloriously in a hotel room from a surfeit of food, drink and women. He left just enough money for beautiful Mrs. Richardson to keep the fine old house and her social prestige, and to send young Percy and Byron to the University of Virginia. While Jim piled up a fortune...