Word: isobel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bobo's Beau. Last October, she got a Reno divorce. She returned to New York, and with her sister Isobel moved back into the Third Avenue apartment where she had lived with Sears. Winthrop, who had gone to Yale, had worked as a roughneck in Texas oilfields, and been wounded off Okinawa, began...
Mendelssohn: Elijah (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Huddersfield Choral Society, Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting; with Isobel Baillie, soprano, Gladys Ripley, contralto, James Johnston, tenor, Harold Williams, bass-baritone; Columbia, 32 sides). It was Mendelssohn who revived Bach's great St. Matthew Passion 100 years after it was written. Now, 100 years after Mendelssohn's death, his own choral masterpiece, a work of simplicity and directness, gets an excellent performance on records. Recording: good...
After marrying Isobel, Cripps had left the chemistry laboratory to take up the law. He was quickly successful. In the 19203 he earned up to $150,000 a year. His mastery of difficult facts resulted in a high proportion (about 80%) of legal victories. But he was restless; he yearned to put his ideas of Christian socialism into practice. He entered politics...
...Part of his strict daily regimen is to bathe each morning at 8, in cold water. By that time, he has already been up nearly four hours. He gets up at 4:15, works in his Whitehall Court flat along the Thames Embankment until 6:45. Then he and Isobel walk briskly through St. James's Park. The rest of the day he sticks meticulously to a tight schedule, gives no more than the allotted time (usually 15 minutes) to each interview...
...evening, if he has no urgent meeting, he dines at home with Isobel. Their menu: carrots or other raw vegetables, black bread, fruit. Ever since he drove for the Red Cross in France during World War I, Cripps has been bothered by intestinal trouble. In 1935 he became a vegetarian. Cripps and Isobel eat no cooked foods, except for an occasional boiled potato...