Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Faversham, 72, Gibson Girl-era matinee idol; of coronary thrombosis; in Bay Shore, N. Y. Romeo to Maude Adams' Juliet, best remembered as The Squaw Man, thrice-married Faversham made and lost several fortunes, declared himself bankrupt in 1935, and in 1937 entered the Percy Williams Home for destitute actors...
...months ago, he was considered the world's distance-running nonpareil. Five times last summer, in his native Finland, he had broken world's records at distances ranging from two miles to 10,000 meters (a little over six miles)-"unbreakable" marks once held by his idol, coach and traveling companion, famed Paavo Nurmi...
...mixed up in sex scandals, she either denounced the girl or paid no attention. (Dr. Wilde, knighted nine months before his worse scandal, left a family in every farmhouse, said G. B. Shaw.) Grieved that Oscar was not a girl (he looked, said a visitor, like a little Hindoo idol), Speranza consoled herself by naming him Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, dressed him like a girl, let him stay up to mingle with the bohemians, patriots and poets who flocked to her salon...
...American but post-Impressionist French were the canvases of agile, sensitive James Chapin up to 1924. Cézanne was his idol. That year he left Greenwich Village, took a walking trip in the hills of northern New Jersey. There he found a two-room log cabin, decided it would be a quiet place to paint. He rented it for $4 a month from the Marvins, a tightfisted, hard-working farm family...
...Hitler for averting a catastrophe of staggering magnitude without spilling one drop of blood!" Daughter Unity during those hectic hours was one of the Fuhrer's women friends privileged to accompany him on his triumphal entry into Austria. She even dashed ahead, to be in Vienna when her idol entered, screamed herself hoarse cheering Conquer or Hitler as he bowled along in triumph...