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...read as a writer's reaction against his own child-labor and childhood shock. Yet Dickens was not only a fighter with words. He fought hand to hand with the dragon of poverty in the slums of London, and his sword was the mighty bankroll of "the richest heiress in all England," a Miss Angela Burdett-Coutts. The Heart of Charles Dickens is the story of their high-purposed and sometimes amusing friendship, told in a selection from more than 500 letters, most of them published for the first time, which Dickens wrote his lady bountiful...
...Ragged Schools (set up by private charity for England's poor) promptly got support from Miss Coutts, and landlords in the slums were encouraged to install sanitary facilities by the good lady's promise to meet all costs above a basic minimum. The novelist and the heiress drew up plans for slum clearance, model-housing projects, community flats with gardens, and Dickens gave days on end to making their paper schemes come brick & mortar true...
...Manhattan's pinko Daily Compass finally folded. Deep in debt, the three-year-old tabloid, lineal descendant of the pinko PM, reached a peak circulation of 54,000 after the start of the Korean war, then slumped to 30,000. The Compass, originally backed by International Harvester heiress Mrs. Emmons Elaine, 86 (TIME. May 16, 1950), was in the red more often than the black. This week the paper's mortgagors and creditors closed in and sold the Compass' fixtures and machinery at auction. Said Editor Ted Thackrey: "We ran out of money. We're through...
Among the 800 guests attending the fashionable wedding of U.S. Heiress Virginia Fortune Ryan and Britain's Lord Ogilvy (see MILESTONES) was South Pacific Star Mary Martin. The Texas-born wedding guest delighted the fashion-conscious by showing up in a fur coat, a hole-in-the-crown fur headpiece, an ear-warming hood anchored by a pearl choker...
Divorced. By Olivia de Havilland, 36, cinemactress who has twice won Oscars (To Each His Own, The Heiress): Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, 54, hot-tempered one-shot novelist (Delilah); on their sixth wedding anniversary; in Los Angeles. To back up her charge of "incompatibility" Olivia explained to the court that Goodrich 1) never told her he had had four previous wives, 2) had not worked since their marriage, 3) "took exception to something I said . . . said he would kill me." Awarded custody of two-year-old Benjamin, Olivia sighed: "I couldn't bear the idea of divorce...