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...fine case history in boorish cruelty and prejudice in a New England factory town. In the 15 brief pages of A Modest Proposal Author Stafford can convey the look, the heat, the boredom, and the sharp antagonisms being played out at a Virgin Islands hotel peopled by divorcées. Like the rest of these tales of interior sickness, it is a sure antidote to complacency. Like most of them, it pokes at the heart, but never makes it miss a beat...
...girl she looks 'too young' or 'too beautiful' for the part," said he. "What can you say to a girl who won't make a suitable Vestal Virgin?" But he had apparently found just what he was looking for. The lucky six: two divorcées, aged 39 and 47, three married women, aged 23, 56 and 60, and one unmarried girl, aged...
...York divorcée whose engagement to another great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria's had just been announced. Her name alone was enough to make Mayfair gasp-it was Mrs. Simpson. This time, however, there was no danger that a romance would rock a throne. Romaine Simpson had no connection with Wally, Duchess of Windsor. Her fiance, handsome David Michael Mountbatten, did not have to ask his cousin George's permission to marry. The Marriage Act makes an exception of the offspring of princesses who marry into foreign families. Milford Haven's royal great-grandmother...
...Divorced. Martha Foley Burnett, 40, co-founder and longtime co-editor of Story magazine; by bearded co-founder and co-editor Whit Burnett, 43; after twelve years; in Reno. Few hours later he married Hallie Southgate Abbett, 34, Reno divorcée of October...
...Divorced. Cinemactress Mae West; from Vaudeville Dancer Frank Wallace, from whom she had been separated since a few weeks after their marriage in Milwaukee, 31 years ago; in Los Angeles. Said Divorcée West: "He has been a pain in the neck for a long time...