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...Died. Dorothea Wieck (rhymes with sheik), 37, fragile, sad-eyed German cinemactress (Maedchen in Uniform), whose 1933 Hollywood visit was cut short by inept roles and whisperings that she was a Nazi spy; in an Allied air raid (according to German report); in Dresden, Germany...
...DOROTHEA ANDERSON Highland Park, Mich...
Snug in her cozy Suffolk home, small, bright-eyed, merry Lady (Dorothea) Gibb read an article by famed Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg exhorting his fellow Russians to hate the Nazis harder than ever. To so devout a Quaker as 83-year-old Lady Gibb, such talk was abhorrent. She penned a note to Comrade Ehrenburg, told him he was filling Russian minds "with something very old and evil, a thirst for vengeance after victory. . . . This does not bring happiness to the victor but only leads to sorrow and evil in the future...
THEY DARE NOT GO A-HUNTING-Dorothea Cornwall - Dodd, Meod...
They Dare Not Go AHunting, a psychological study of the relations between a mother and her daughter, was inspired by a line from British Poet William Ailingham's The Fairies ("We daren't go ahunting for fear of little men"). Born (1919) Dorothea Graff in Pittsburgh (she married Du Pont Engineer Donovan Cornwell on leaving high school), Author Cornwell began her literary career writing book reviews for the Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator, later turned to short-story writing. In 1942 she won second prize in a Story magazine short-story contest. A devotee of dancing, riding, dogs and South...