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Married. Lynn Patrick, 26, professional hockey-player (New York Rangers) and son of the team's manager, Lester Patrick; and Dorothea Davis, 18, beauteous John Powers model; in Manhattan...
Fran Linz Beermann will be played by Miss Victor. Fran Bolland, Miss Garfield; Fran Lund, an elderly lady, Miss Constable; Effle, Beermann's daughter, Miss Chaffee; Ninon de Hauteville, a lady of leisure, Miss Dorothea Macmillan...
Sued for divorce. John Hope Doeg, 29, kin of the famed tennis-playing Bundys and onetime (1930) national tennis singles champion; by Dorothea Scudder Doeg; in Trenton. N. J. Grounds: cruelty...
...past have included Carl Sandburg, Harriet Monroe, Vincent Sheean, some 16 other Midwesterners. Professional literary critics have no say in Friends of American Writers' selections. For its 1937 award of $1.000, the club's committee of 21 considered but passed over books by Ernest Hemingway, Dorothea Brande, Louis Bromfield, chose 30-year-old William Maxwell's They Came Like Swallows (TIME...
...Dorothea's life was a matter of going to dull parties, visiting the King at Brighton, picking up scraps of gossip, nattering the King's fat mistress, patching up quarrels between, Austrian supporters, suffering boredom, nervousness, tantrums and fears of revolution, then making fun of everybody and everything to Metternich. Because she did so with a mixture of malice, snobbishness, impatience, heartlessness and occasional humdrum housewifely humor, her private letters make a lively book, packed with characterizations that, a novelist could envy. Thus she describes the conversation of her diplomatic rival, the clumsy, ill-favored wife...