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...significant . . . that you have illustrated your entrancing and masterful article on Olivier's Hamlet with the Ashbourne portrait which hangs in the Folger Shakespeare Library. This has lately been revealed by X-ray and infra-red pictures to be a portrait of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford . . . The Oxford crest on the signet ring is disclosed, and also, in the upper corner, Lady Oxford's coat of arms. A commoner's collar has been painted over the nobleman's ruff, and the forehead raised to the point of baldness...
...Folger Shakespeare Library Washington...
...Manatee, a tale of love and whaling-men ("Violent . . . corrosive. . . . Jabez Folger['s] soul was possessed by an evil demon. . . ."), was the year's freak success. Nancy Bruff, wife of a Wall Street broker, hired crack Press Agent Russell Birdwell to put over her first novel. With a nude heroine in the form of a ship's figurehead enlivening its cover (see cut), and pretty Author Bruff. décolletée, enlivening its advertising. The Manatee soared high on best-seller lists...
...most WPBigwigs are going back to their prewar jobs: Field Operations Vice Chairman James A. Folger to his coffee company in San Francisco ; Operations Vice Chairman Harold Boeschenstein to the presidency of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Co. WPB has set up an employment agency to help place smaller fry, has found industry eager to snap them up. Cap Krug has been offered a job with Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., was rumored to be dickering with Atlas Corp., but he has not yet decided what he will do. "I'm as obsolete as a machine gun," said Cap Krug...
Married. Pfc. Derick Vanderbilt Webb, 30, fifth-generation descendant of famed dynast Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Elizabeth Bigelow Canfield, 19, young est child of the late socialite Manhattan lawyer George Folger Canfield; in Manhattan...