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...early '30s, for instance, Picasso fell in love with a blonde Swiss girl named Marie-Thérèse Walter, 33 years younger than he. Marie-Thérèse-unlike the social-climbing Olga, who preceded her, and the sharply intelligent, gifted and nervous Dora Maar, who was her successor-presented no threat to him at all. She was a passive...
Other interesting data from the official biography: "Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska, March 13, 1911, the only child of Commander H. R. Hubbard, U. S. N., and Dora May Hubbard. He studied Science and Mathematics at George Washington, graduated from Colombian College. He attended Princeton University . . . He wrote and published over 15 million words. . . before WWH. During that war, he served as a commander of corvettes and was extensively decorated. Crippled and blind at the end of the war, he resumed his studies of philosophy and by his discoveries recovered so fully that he was reclassified...
...rage north toward Cuba or Florida, assaulting everything in their path. Usually, however, they dissipate before they do too much damage, or veer out to sea. Only one out of four hit the U.S. They are ordinary enough so that they are systematically named, always after women-Beulah, Flora, Dora...
...life with Lady Constance Malleson. Writes Russell: "I want personal love to be like a beacon fire lighting up the darkness, not a timid refuge from the cold as it is very often . . . Oh, I am happy, happy, happy." He passes with equal vagueness from his second marriage to Dora Black and the first joys of paternity at the age of 49 through the divorce and into his third marriage to Patricia Spence when...
Strachey's strangest alliance was with a woman, of all people-a hoydenish little kook named Dora Carrington, described by a friend as "a tin of mixed biscuits." Carrington met him at a house party in 1915. He offended her one evening, and next morning she crept into his bedroom, intending to cut off his beard by way of revenge. Instead, she fell in love with him, and moved in to take care of him for the rest of his life. That was fine with Strachey, who later fell in love with a beau of Carrington's named...