Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most positive fruit of Novelist Lewis' recent flirtation with the little-theater movement was his friendship with Marcella Powers. She acted with him in a number of plays (see cut). Miss Powers decorated Lewis' Manhattan apartment (where he wrote much of his new novel, Cass Timberlane). When he bought (for a reputed $26,000) his Tudor mansion in Duluth, Miss Powers went out to visit him and decorate that. Says Lewis, when asked if he is planning to marry again: "No signs of it." Say his friends: "We just don't know...
...because they'd rather live as refugees than as subjects of the Russians. When pressed for details, none had anything but hearsay evidence to offer in support of their fears. It made me wonder how much of their fear was justified in fact and how much was the fruit of an assiduously pursued propaganda program engineered by Goebbels. I pass the idea along as worthy of consideration because in your Aug. 13 issue you seem to forget that many Austrians were once Nazi, and quite thoroughly...
...Domei News Agency, and hoped that might make her a Portuguese citizen (the latest U.S. laws on the point have not been court tested, but presumably she could not renounce U.S. citizenship without the approval of the U.S.). Her brother Fred, who now helps run the family fruit stand in Chicago, said last week: "All we know is what we read in the papers. We feel we are not in a position to condemn...
...Green Man, and Bronzino's Eleanor of Aragon. Pieter Breughel's Amsterdam under the Snow is priced at $14,850; Bronzino's Venus and Cupid at $13,750; Antonio Moro's Portrait of a Man and a Manet still life, Flowers and Fruit, at $11,000 each...
...this bustle did not mean that travel for travel's sake was back again. There were no bon voyage parties, no champagne, no baskets of fruit. The big liners, still painted battleship grey, slid quietly through the Narrows. The passengers were "on official business," or were European nationals returning home...