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When Svetlana Alliluyeva was on her way to Switzerland from India in March, someone gave her a copy of Doctor Zhivago in Russian. It was, she is sure, no coincidence, but an act of fate. Soon immersed in the book, which is banned in Russia, she found that it affected...
Last week those fears were put to rest by Cumberland County Judge Clinton R. Weidner, who ruled not only that Stevens' book is accurate and protected as free speech-but also that Stevens was actually too polite to Tycoon Frick. If his daughter were upheld, said Judge Weidner, "our...
Descendant from a long line of University of Michigan presidents, MacLachlan taught at Harvard from 1924 to 1960. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1916.
The Moon and Six Guineas is a brittle-brutal study of a once fashionable painter, John Howland, a "Bostonian and Mayflower descendant, educated at Dixwell Latin School and Harvard." He made his first mistake in becoming an artist; his second was to leave-together with his corny canvases-a portfolio...
Divorced. By Edwin Russell, 52, publisher of the Harrisburg Patriot-News; Iris Paine Russell, 40, wealthy descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; on grounds of "incompatibility of character"; after 18 weeks of marriage (which took place last October, just 24 days after he was divorced by her second cousin, Lady Sarah...