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Died. Ray Stannard Baker, 76, author, essayist and journalist, friend and official biographer of Woodrow Wilson and one of the last of the "muckrakers" (others: Lincoln Steffens, Ida M. Tarbell), who flourished on the late great McClure's magazine at the turn of the century; in Amherst, Mass. Under the pen name of David Grayson, Baker wrote nine popular volumes of philosophical essays about nature and people (Adventures in Contentment, The Countryman's Year); under his own name 27 volumes about political, social and economic problems and biography. His greatest and Pulitzer Prize work: Woodrow Wilson-Life...
...George Reresby Sitwell of Renishaw was an extraordinary man. He spent money like water, dabbled in medieval lore, invented a musical toothbrush that played Annie Laurie. In a milder way, his wife, Lady Ida, was extraordinary too. Though she invented nothing, she also spent money like water (she once paid a large price for a pig said to be psychic), as befitted a daughter of the Earl of Londesborough and a descendant of the royal Plantagenets...
...George and Lady Ida had three children. Edith, the eldest, is the sad-looking, six-foot, sixtyish spinster now renowned for her exotic garb, her exotic prose, her "glittering plinths of jacynth" poetry. The elder son and successor to the title is Osbert: traveler, memoirist, novelist, literary crony of the King & Queen. The younger son is Sacheverell, amateur of baroque art, and biographer of Franz Liszt...
Theodore F. Ball '48--Nancy Dembent (Mt. Ida Jr. Coll...
...judge by the film, the sisters were rather like Little Women on an overcast day. Father Brontë (Montagu Love), though a grouch, was not really a bad old sort. Emily (Ida Lupino) found stimulation in a skyline wreck which she called "Wuthering Heights," and frequently flared her nostrils at the moors. Charlotte (Olivia de Havilland), a pretty, man-apt, comfortable soul, was the last sort of girl in the world you would expect to write a novel, even Jane Eyre-which, one gathers, was just a drugstore romance. Arrogant Brother Branwell (Arthur Kennedy), more true to history, drowned...