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...Lucien is too shy to open. At the end, a rabble of nobility, jealous of Lucien's success with the wealthy widow they want for themselves, conspires to mount a gruesome charade. It convinces Lucien that his innocent lady love has had an illegitimate child by another man. Heartbroken, he rushes back to Paris, utterly unaware that he has been japed...
...Sokolsky* switched his column to Hearst's Journal-American; Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Rube Goldberg also jumped to the JA. Such by liners as Reporter Mike Johnson, 82-year-old Henry McBride, dean of U.S. art critics, and Washington Correspondent Phelps Adams would have little trouble landing jobs. But heartbroken Executive Editor Speed was "looking for a hobby," and most of the Sun's staff of 1,200 editorial, business and mechanical employees were looking for work...
...trouble is started by son Richard (Mickey Rooney), a sensitive high-school senior who reads such radical thinkers as Shaw, Wilde and Ibsen. After innocently quoting a few of Swinburne's riper lines in a letter to his best girl, Richard is forbidden to see her again. Heartbroken, he vows to burn himself out in wild debauchery, settles for two sloe-gin fizzes with a local café dancer (Marilyn Maxwell...
...parishioners, soon learned that he was not the only target of the poison penman. One woman came to him and threatened to throw herself off the cliff if she got another insulting letter. A respected old villager was accused of fathering his own daughter's child. A heartbroken mother, whose baby had just died, was accused of killing the baby herself. Some thought the letters must come from a member of the church choir: caustic remarks about their singing regularly arrived for the choristers. Sample: "If you must sing, get some bird seed...
Last week, the rhymester, 47, wrote a suicide note leaving his worldly goods to his second wife. Then he jumped from his 12th-floor Manhattan studio. Don Wahn's last heartbroken lines appeared a day later...