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...Marquand's other satires of blue-blooded (but white-corpuscled) New Englanders, there is almost no story, but such story as there is is sieved through the mind of one person. The sieve in So Little Time is Jeffrey Wilson, a fiftyish, talented doctor of other people's ailing plays. Jeffrey is ailing himself, for he is troubled with a vague, chronic anxiety about the emptiness of contemporary U.S. life and the immediate prospect of far-reaching social changes...
...three years the London Times Educational Supplement and the Supplement's editor, energetic, fiftyish Harold Collett Dent, have been pitching thunderbolts, helping arouse the public until Parliament is cornered. A reform program, presented to Parliament by the head of the Board of Education, would use the first seven postwar years to create a system costing ?67,400,000 more annually, a more than 50% hike in the British education budget. Some proposed reforms...
Divorced. Lionel Atwill, 58, onetime matinee idol; by Henrietta Louise Cromwell Atwill, fiftyish, ex-wife of General Douglas MacArthur; after 13 years of marriage (third for each); in Washington, D.C. She is a sister of onetime Minister to Canada James H. R. ("Jimmie") Cromwell...
Grizzled, fiftyish Pedro Candioti is one of Argentina's most beloved athletes. His specialty is not futbol, polo or tennis, but endurance swimming. Last week, for the 26th time, Pedro Candioti tried to realize his life's ambition: to swim down the Paraná River to Buenos Aires...
General Douglas MocArthur's 43-year-old wife, Jean, and four-year-old son, Arthur, are still in the Philippines, still safe, Cordell Hull disclosed. Meantime in Washington the General's first wife, Louise Atwill, fiftyish, now the wife of ex-Matinee Idol Lionel Atwill, said she has lately been getting "hundreds of letters from hysterical people who demand to know in detail why I divorced MacArthur." Also received: newspaper queries on the color of the General's eyes and hair; a fat offer from a syndicate for his early love letters...