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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary newspictures his standard price to German publications is 20 to 25 marks, but U. S. rights to a particularly fetching photograph of der schöne Adolf sometimes bring as much as $250. Bildberichterstatter Hoffmann is not the only gainer by his deal with his great & good friend: Adolf Hitler well knows that the least flattering photographs of himself never leave the dark room...
...pictures, Harpo (real name: Arthur) Marx, 45, makes standard practice of bounding like a bandersnatch after pretty blondes. He married (1936) a pretty brunette, Cinemactress Susan Fleming. Year ago the Marxes took in an infant on approval, last week legally adopted him. His name: William Woollcott (after their good friend Alexander Woollcott, devoted Marxist...
...Boston Athenaeum, probably knows more about New England's history and first families than any man alive. To his knowledge is credited much of the background which has gone into more polished biographies than Author Howe's; notable is The Flowering of New England, by his good friend Van Wyck Brooks...
...Diego Rivera has not since been forgotten in the U. S. it is thanks to two beautiful frescoes in San Francisco, one in Detroit, and at least partly to the writings of his faithful friend, Bertram David Wolfe.* Last week Wolfe paid Rivera, now 52, the greater tribute of a biography...
...question whether their work was ever as important as their books about it. But for Oswald Garrison Villard, owner for 15 years of The Nation, and tireless champion of civil liberties, no such question is possible. Son of the builder of the Northern Pacific, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, friend of liberals big and little, Villard has more than most of the autobiographers to write about, if the criterion were staying power, number of fights, and refusal to admit defeat...