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Elizabeth Gellhorn [TIME, April 13] and other jealous Yankee gals appear perturbed about so many soldiers being in England this spring. Elizabeth expresses her jealousy by denouncing the English mother of an American soldier's illegitimate quads. A friend of mine in a letter last week expressed it in classic parody: "Oh to be in England now that the Army's there." British females, given good girdles and such, silk stockings, high heels, a permanent wave and a good set of cosmetics, could easily come up to American standards of beauty. After five years of war they aren...
Editor La Cossitt plans no changes in the tone of Collier's (wartime circulation ceiling: 2,860,000). His immediate task is smart coverage of invaded Europe. He has some star reporters for this crucial job: William B. Courtney and Martha Gellhorn are already in England. Soon to join them is Reporter Gellhorn's husband, who has succeeded in making literature out of war reporting, burly, newly-bearded Ernest Hemingway...
Married. Ernest Hemingway, 42, novelist (A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls); and Martha Gellhorn, 32, war correspondent; he for the third time; by a justice of the peace in the Union Pacific dining hall; at Cheyenne...
...came out of it with nervous exhaustion and a book of four long short stories called The Trouble I've Seen. It was acclaimed by Mrs. Roosevelt, by then (1936) well established as a leading U. S. book salesman; and with Author Gellhorn's photograph and back ground, any publisher's publicity writer could do the rest. Martha...
...foreign correspondent, how she got involved with anti-Nazi conspirators, her big failure when she enlisted the help of a British Special Commissioner and a French general in a scheme to protect her German Communist friend Rita. (Rita, romanticized mistress of a romanticized revolutionist, is refugee heroine of Author Gellhorn's story within a story-an artificial device, justified mainly by a climax scene which adds a graphic chapter to inquisitional literature...