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...life story of Edna St. Vincent Millay," reported Gossip Columnist Danton Walker, "may be a new biographical film." A few days before, Walker had reported: "Alice B. Toklas . . . [is] returning here from Paris to buy a home in Oakland, Calif." But Columnist Walker (one of two newspapermen to make the Man of Distinction whiskey ads) was having a spell of undistinction.* In Austerlitz, N.Y., Pulitzer Prize Poetess Millay averred that she had never heard of such a thing. In Paris, the famed bosom friend of the late Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) announced: "I have no intention...
Married. Donald Marr Nelson, 59, plump, balding wartime WPBoss; and Australian-born Valerie Edna May Rowell, 31, former British actress; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
...satire on the effete culture of Boston ("In the room the women come and go, Talking of Michelangelo"-); Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets; Joyce Kilmer's Trees; Vachel Lindsay's General William Booth Enters Into Heaven, She gave the first critical recognition to Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Karl Shapiro. In Poetry D. H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford and Rabindranath Tagore got their first U.S. hearings. # Copyright by permission of Harcourt, Brace...
...Atlantic City, Mrs. Edna Lamb, 23, a professional oyster opener from Maurice River, N.J., won the U.S. clam-eating championship by downing 186 cherry stones in 30 minutes. This was 30 clams better than the national record hung up last year by a jitney driver named Izzy Weintraub. Defending Champion Weintraub's score...
...EDNA KINGSBURY WATTS Appleton...