Word: evelyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left by Washington's Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson: to seven newsmen, her newspaper, the Washington Times-Herald (see PRESS) ; to her daughter, Countess Felicia Gizycka, virtually all her personal belongings, an estate on Long Island, an estate in North Dakota, a $25,-000 annual income; to Mrs. Evelyn ("Evie") Robert, flamboyant Times-Herald columnist (Eve's Rib), Washington business properties, her black pearl earrings, a sable scarf; to the Red Cross, her Washington home at 15 Dupont Circle; to various charities "aiding needy children, especially homeless and orphan children," the residue of her multimillion-dollar estate...
...Saint? What is Greene trying to' say? That Scobie is a sinner whose story should evoke horror? Or (as Catholic Author Evelyn Waugh supposes) that Scobie is almost a saint...
Married. Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., 28, television equipment merchant, who accompanied his father on the 1947 Antarctic expedition; and Emily Bradley Saltonstall, 28, daughter of Massachusetts' senior Senator Leverett Saltonstall; in Dover, Mass...
...Novelist Evelyn Waugh has pointed out, the bare bones of this story might just as well have come from the pen of France's murky thriller-writer, Georges Simenon, or from mysticky W. Somerset Maugham, or even from a Hollywood scripter ("One can imagine . . . Miss Bacall's pretty head lolling on the stretcher . . .") But needless to say, it is the flesh and mind, not the skeleton, that make The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene's most ambitious book...
...Evelyn...