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Cynics of the baptismal font to the contrary, Edna St. Vincent Millay did not affect her lilting name, but she retains it in preference to her husband's, Eugen Jan Boissevain. A wealthy importer, he was previously married to the famed suffragist, Inez Mulholland. Miss Millay is proud of owning "the smallest house and garden in Manhattan" (Greenwich Village), though Thomas Hardy couples her with skyscrapers, "recessional buildings," as the two greatest things in America. She is coupled, further, with Edgar Allan Poe, as the only American poets to have attained translation into the Spanish...
...Berlin, last week, Professor Eugen Steinach, medical Ponce de Leon, announced his possible discovery of a glandular fountain of youth. Injecting pituitary serum into docile, doddering rats, he noticed that they grew hair, an appetite, and sprightliness...
...heads the Soviet Statistical Department. His attendant stenographers and private secretary were seen, last week, to be ladies of stern, middle age, their skirts at pre-War length, their manners suggesting not at all the imaginary "free-love" conditions pretended to exist in Russia. Second in authority was Comrade Eugen Varga, a Hungarian, one-time chief adviser to the ousted Soviet dictator of Hungary, fat, spiderlike Bela Kun (dictator...
...Miss Millay (Mrs. Eugen Jan Boissevain), blond and sprightly in crimson and gold Florentine brocade with a long train, burst out after the curtain calls: "No one sleeps tonight! It is our New Year's!" She had worked steadily, through illness, for two years...
With her husband Eugen Jan Boissevain, she sought the Maine woods, there to recuperate from long ill-health, to work quietly on the book for The King's Henchman (TIME, Aug. 30). Two months ago, the couple disappeared from their tiny cottage, were seen no more in Maine...