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...developed a lively and somewhat overarch Guedalla English which soon helped to make biographies almost as popular reading as novels. It also boosted the sales of his books (as one critic observed with Guedallan acidity) "within measuring distance of the giddy heights attained by Mr. Edgar Wallace and Miss Elinor Glynn." It was a style nicely adapted to describing the molting eagles of Napoleon I (The Hundred Days) and the tacky grandeurs of Napoleon III (The Second Empire). But is it, as Mr. Guedalla himself would ask, is it the style with which to describe Britain's great wartime...
...with the Office of Civilian Defense to plump for national female fitness......Mum on her reasons, Lillian Gish abruptly checked out of the America First Committee....Birth Controler Margaret Sanger ascribed new difficulties of the birth-control movement in the U.S. to the existence of a totalitarian plot.....Elinor Glyn, who brought forth "It," came away from an interview with Britain's Minister of State declaring that what Beaverbrook had was "Vril." She said it meant energy......In England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country, got a 20-mile ride with grandmotherly Queen Mary, the beauteous...
Married. Poet-Critic William Rose Benet, 55, onetime husband of the late Poet Elinor Wylie; and Marjorie Flack, 43, children's writer and illustrator; he, for the fourth time; in Newtown, Conn. His marriage to Actress Lora Baxter ended in divorce...
Anticipating a swollen sing line of Harvard males, the Radcliffe dance committee, which includes Elinor Horn, Vivian Wolfe, Judith Fridberg, Mary Douglas, and Diana Mowrer, has arranged for mass exchange dances...
Radcliffe College, defending champion, was represented by Miss Elinor Horn and Miss Mary O'Keefe. Radcliffe turned in the lowest score this year, and finished in twelfth place...