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...THOMAS GAGE'S TRAVELS IN THE NEW WORLD (379 pp.)-Edifed and with an Introduction by J. Eric S. Thompson-University of Oklahoma...
Priestly Tourists. Gage was born into the bloody-minded time which brewed England's Civil War. The Gage family were militants of Roman Catholicism, and Thomas probably had to change his name as well as his country to get a Catholic education. He studied in Spain and at St. Omer's in French Flanders, a school set up for English Catholics on the run, and became a priest. After 16 years, most of them spent as a Dominican missionary in Mexico and Guatemala, Gage returned to England in 1637 and renounced Catholicism. He became a Protestant clergyman...
...terms of the old nursery jingle no more crooked man walked a longer mile than Thomas Gage, an English Dominican friar turned Protestant clergyman, and no man more thoroughly squandered the possibility of a heroic memory as missionary, adventurer and writer. Thomas Gage is forgotten today so that his name is not even listed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, yet his narrative of his travels in the New World deserves a place with the classics of exploration...
Divorced. By Esther Williams, 35, cinemermaid: Ben Gage, 42, manufacturer, onetime radio actor-announcer; after twelve years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Alimony awarded to Esther: $12 a year...
...velvet, Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, 42, beaming on an old beau she had met in the late '30s in Branford, Conn., took as her fourth husband German-born Novelist Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque, 59. In Las Vegas, onetime Queen-for-a-day Leona Gage, 18. who got bounced from the Miss U.S.A. throne last year for being a married woman, did her own bouncing: she divorced Air Force Sergeant Gene Ennis. Now a Tropicana Hotel show girl making $200 a week, the leggy brunette got only $25 a month for support of her two children...