Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strom, then 44, and catching his breath for the moment, had time for other matters, particularly pretty Jean Crouch, 21-year-old daughter of an old family friend. He appointed her "Miss South Carolina," to preside over Charleston's Azalea Festival; he brought her to the mansion to serve as his personal secretary. One day he dictated to her: "My darling Jean . . . Loving you as much as I do ... I want you to be my wife without too much delay . . ." She retired to the next room and typed out her acceptance...
Shopman Douglas, 20, pretty blonde daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was keeping company in London with one of the realm's most eligible nobles: the Marquess of Blandford, 22. They were seen together at dinner, at dancing, and over afternoon milkshakes at the embassy canteen. They were seen together at the movies (where a photographer snapped them seated next to Clement Attlee's son Martin-see cut). What excited the gossips was the hint of a triangle: the tall young Guardsman was supposed to have another girl-Princess Margaret...
Married. Freddie Mills, 29, British boxer, light heavyweight champion of the world since he defeated New Jersey's Gus Lesnevich last July; and Chrissie Broadribb, 36, his manager's daughter; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...
...sides in a conflict between two oversimplified sets of values. The conflict involves Newsman Tyrone Power, who must choose between Good (writing as he pleases for "nickels and dimes" and marrying lovely Anne Baxter) and Evil (selling out to New York Publishing Tycoon Lee J. Cobb and his predatory daughter, Jayne Meadows). Any leprechaun knows the difference between good & evil, but it takes some time for a stuffy hero to figure...
...Hawthorne year. Nathaniel Hawthorne, a biography by Brown University's Randall Stewart, will be published this month (Yale; $4). The Portable Hawthorne (Viking; $2), edited by Malcolm Cowley, and Theodore Maynard's A Fire Was Lighted (Bruce; $3.50), a biography of Hawthorne's daughter, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, have appeared earlier...