Word: ellen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Incompatibility." Adlai Stevenson married Ellen Borden, one of Chicago's most attractive debutantes, on Dec. 1, 1928. They have three sons, Adlai III, 21 (recently enlisted in the Marines); Borden, 20; and John Fell, 16. In 1949, less than a year after Stevenson became governor of Illinois, his wife sued for divorce. The unhappy governor told reporters: "Although I don't believe in divorce, I will not contest it ... Due to the incompatibility of our lives, Mrs. Stevenson feels a separation is necessary...
Social Labyrinth. Angela Madison is the natural leader of the quartet; she is striking if not pretty, and supposed by the town, for no clear reason, to be intellectual. Ellen Terra Rook is small, squashy and ripe as a berry. Hope Stone suffers from having been born up North, but in her literal-minded way she, too, burns with the hungers of youth. Carrie Gregory, crippled by polio, cuts her way through life with her tongue. Different as they are, all agree on one thing: each is out to land Rector Barbee...
Serious Turn. Alas, Rector Barbee is by no means equal to the chase. He flees to a parish in Montana, and with Barbee gone, Lament for Four Virgins turns pretty serious. Author Tucker traces the careers of her four girls into middle age-Angela into a late, dreary marriage, Ellen Terra into sloppy promiscuity, Hope into money and dipsomania, and crippled Carrie into a solid romance with her doctor. The post-Barbee era is readable enough, but it lacks the spirit of the old days...
...Ellen Stevenson, who divorced Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson in 1949, last week told the Chicago Daily News: "Illinois needs him for governor, but our country needs a change of administration. One party has been in power too long ... I am going to vote Republican ... no matter who's running...
...been a very fine novel indeed. But even as it is, the book is an honest and sometimes dramatic picture of love turning in upon itself. Novelist Hedden, herself a Southerner, writes with authority of the post-Reconstruction South. More important, she writes with authority of Ora, David and Ellen, demonstrating through their troubles that the tyranny of the weak can be as oppressive as that of the strong...