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Married. Bertrand Russell, 80, British philosopher-author (Unpopular Essays, New Hopes for a Changing World), longtime champion of premarital sex and critic of modern marriage ("Most . . . would break up at middle age if it were not for economic considerations"); and Edith Finch, 52, onetime teacher at Bryn Mawr; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in London...
Hollywood's home-grown characters got notice that they could expect some first-rate competition from abroad. Dame Edith Sitwell, 65, poet-historian-lecturer sister of Sir Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, held an audience for reporters in London and announced that she was off to California to write the screen play of her book Fanfare For Elizabeth (about Anne Boleyn and young Elizabeth). Said she: "My first scene will be most appallingly morbid. It almost frightens me. The story opens in London. Murder hovers around, and there will be an absolutely superb scene in the hospital for leprous virgins...
Engaged. Bertrand Russell, 80, Britain's famed philosophical trustbuster (Unpopular Essays, New Hopes for a Changing World) and thrice-married critic of modern manners & morals ("Most marriages would break up at middle age if it were not for economic considerations"); to Edith Finch, 52, onetime English teacher at Bryn Mawr College, now his secretary; in London...
Veterans' Affairs. Massachusetts' Edith Nourse Rogers, a member of Congress since 1925, who will be the only woman to head a committee. A tireless friend of the veteran, she was the President's special representative for care of disabled veterans under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...
...Congressional elections, there were no surprising changes. Democratic House majority leader John W. McCormack of Boston won easily, as did Republicans John W. Heselton and Edith Nourse Rogers. Representative from the Cambridge district, Democrat Thomas P. O'Neill, outdistanced his opponent from the start. Returns indicated that the Republicans would continue to hold a slim majority in the state's 14-man House delegation...