Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thornton was the second of five children, and his father had anxious plans for each of them. Amos, the eldest, was to be a minister (he is now professor of New Testament at Chicago); Charlotte a doctor (she became a professor and poet) ; Isabel a nurse (she became a novelist); and Janet a scientist (she gave up zoology for marriage). When it came to Thornton, father Wilder had little hope: "Poor Thornton, poor Thornton," he would say, "he'll be a burden all his life...
...from Lawrenceville and wrote a third novel. The Woman of Andros, inspired by a play of Terence, was equally polished,* and it, too, was a success. As the royalties poured in, Wilder built his parents a house in New Haven ("the house the Bridge built"), and took his sister Isabel off to Europe. He dined with Arnold Bennett, heard G. B. Shaw lecture Mrs. Hardy on the merits of vegetarianism ("In the next room, my wife will lay before you the decaying carcasses of animals"). He went to Berlin, attended the theater almost every night, continued a project of reading...
...deeper were Epstein's statues of women, usually half-figures, in which the sculptor uses the set of shoulders, the modeling of collarbone and breasts to suggest personality. There was a beautiful, grave head of his wife, Margaret, a hollow-eyed, haunted Louise, a brazen, thick-lipped Isabel. His most recent was Elizabeth, and it showed Epstein at his peak: a silver head of a young woman with the air of one of Botticelli's beauties. "It is odd," mused the News Chronicle, "that the sculptor has suffered the odium of being called a modern...
...Died. Isabel Townsend Pell. 51, New York socialite and a heroine of the French underground during World War II; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After brief flings at real estate, the stage and auto racing, she joined the Maquis in 1940 at her summer home, in Auribeau on the Riviera. Known as "Fredericka" and la fille å la mėche blonde (because of a lock of white hair on her forehead), she served the Resistance movement for four years, once rescued 16 U.S. paratroopers stranded behind enemy lines...
...part-time job addressing envelopes. The lady writer proved to be an inconvenient wisecracker. And the diplomat brought his slinky, good-looking niece with him. Soon Gordon was neglecting his collection in favor of the diplomat's niece, while the other celebrities hung around uselessly, and Isabel frowned in wifely worry. But Isabel took the situation in hand, routed the slinky number, and persuaded the richest man in the world that what he really wanted was a cruise with his wife...