Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Clifford Stanton Heinz II, 30, an heir to the Pittsburgh food-packing fortune founded by his grandfather, the late H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz, and Second Wife Virginia Howard Heinz, thirtyish: their second child, first daughter (he has a son by his first marriage); in Los Angeles. Name: Sharon Louise. Weight...
Died. John Robert Clynes, 80, pioneer in the British Labor Party who rose from millhand to cabinet rank (Lord Privy Seal, 1924; Home Secretary, 1929-31) in his country's first two Labor governments (he was the first to introduce rationing, in 1918); in London. In virtual obscurity by 1947, Clynes was forced to admit publicly that he was almost destitute...
...signed by B. P. Schulberg who, at 57, had reaped the rewards of a full Hollywood producing career: money, enemies and some impressive credentials. He was the man who discovered Clara Bow, dubbed Mary Pickford "America's Sweetheart," helped to form United Artists, produced Wings, which won the first Academy Award. As Paramount's production boss from 1925 to 1932, he had drawn $9,500 a week...
...this strange and bloody epoch of the sea," pipe Publishers Doubleday, forgetting in their rapture that "epic" is the proper pennant to hoist on such occasions, "Robert Graves turns his incomparable talents to the remarkable Ysabel Barreto -beautiful and dangerous-who used treachery, intrigue, and love to become the first woman admiral in the Spanish navy and then embarked on a perilous voyage, filled with incredible and startling adventures, to the Solomon Islands in search of gold...
This is pretty much what Robert Graves's new novel is all about-except that peppy Ysabel doesn't join the admiralty until the last quarter of the book, while the gold rush occurs in the first three-quarters and is led by Ysabel's husband, who is a general...