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...seemed to thicken as dawn came. Suddenly, 20 feet dead ahead, a great silhouette showed. Fred Bourque shouted a warning to Billy Oilman at the wheel, ran aft. In less time than it takes to gut a cod the Isabelle Parker had piled halfway through the Gloucesterman Edith C. Rose, southbound with her hold stuffed with catch from Brown's Bank. The watch below came tumbling up in undershirts. They saw that it was over for both ships...
...strict Slade School. She carried a little suitcase instead of a handbag "because," she told the supercilious young Marquess of Donegall, "the damned thing holds more, you fool." One day she ran off to France with Señor Alvaro Guevara, a charming Chilean painter whose portrait of Poetess Edith Sitwell hangs in the Tate Gallery. Tentative little paintings by Meraud Guevara began to. appear in the Paris Salon des Independants. That was ten years...
...saga of Harold E. Dahl, the U. S. aviator who fell into Rebel hands while fighting as a mercenary for the Loyalist Air Force in July 1937. Ambassador Claude Bowers, back from Spain for good, said that the famous letter Harold Dahl's pretty wife, Edith, wrote to Francisco Franco, enclosing an interesting picture of herself and begging clemency for her husband, never reached the very married Generalissimo. His staff officers handed the picture around and "passed judgment." according to the New York Daily News, "on this and that." Then they wrote her, over General Franco's signature...
...Beware of Pity, first full-length novel of symbolist-minded, 57-year-old Austrian Biographer Stefan Zweig (Marie Antoinette). Told to Author Zweig as the "confession" of an Austrian War hero. Captain Hofmiller, it is a pre-War tragedy which came from Hofmiller's pity for beautiful, crippled Edith von Kekesfalva, daughter of an Austrian pseudo nobleman. Invited for the first time to the Kekesfalvas' big country estate, naïve young Hofmiller, un aware that Edith's fur robe covers withered legs, asks her to dance. She bursts into sobs, hysterical abuse. So begin Hof miller...
Built up with detailed analyses, confession within confession, the story moves slowly. Two incidental stories-of Edith's father and her doctor-share almost equal space with that of Edith and Hofmiller...