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This is the story no less of Isabel Burton than of her spectacular husband, translator of the Arabian Nights. But she was at least a match for him. They were as daft, disarming a pair of eccentrics as boredom with Victorian England produced...
Died. Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Cavalcade, 9. Kentucky Derby winner and leading three-year-old in 1934; of "shipping fever" (equine influenza), contracted while traveling from Virginia to Kentucky for the breeding season; at Lexington...
...PROVE FAIR WEATHER-Isabel Paterson-Putnam...
...Isabel Paterson has all the best qualities of a chipmunk, including a love of stone walls and a sidelong, quizzical look. The resemblance would be still more marked if chipmunks wore lorgnettes. Her impish weekly literary column in the New York Herald Tribune, "Turns With a Bookworm," is appropriately signed I. M. P. Between columns Critic Paterson writes novels for much the same reason that the Irishman liked to be hit on the head-because they cause her so much anguish that mere personal calamities shrivel by comparison...
...acting of Spencer Tracy. As Ranger Rogers, Spencer Tracy is as much at home in a whaleboat in Northwest Passage as he was in a fishing boat in Captains Courageous. It is no more a surprise to find him on the warpath than to find toothless Walter Brennan or Isabel Jewell, who is dragged from the burning Indian village, cussing and clawing with her usual high spirits. The shocking thing is to see debonair, man-of-the-world Robert Young, smiling perkily in his best bedside manner in the middle of the howling wilderness. He stops when he makes...