Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky is a courteous man who likes Jane Austen's novels and earthy Russian proverbs. His favorite version of his favorite proverb before he walked out of the Allied Control Council meetings was: "I want to skin this bear before I shoot it." The bear is Berlin's city symbol. By this week, the Berlin bear looked pretty well skinned-and 3½ million Berliners wondered how close the Marshal's well-manicured finger was to the trigger...
...Nutmeg Tree, Cluny Brown) she has neatly observed the small, telling details of social manners that weightier novelists often pass by. Her special gift is sketching, snippily but without too much malice, the idiosyncratic types that seem still to populate the English countryside as in the days of Jane Austen. (This gift has paid off well; three of her novels have been chosen as monthly selections by the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...Years is disappointingly barren of significant comment on Lovett's many important chores. For 16 years he lived at Jane Addams' famed Hull House in Chicago, but his recollections are those of a friendly, casual onlooker instead of the devoted worker he was. He aided all sorts of liberal causes as writer, speaker and organizer, usually with more energy and enthusiasm than his petition-signing, hat-passing colleagues, but this account of his impulsive championship of the underdog reads like a genial assurance that he couldn't say no in a good cause...
Divorced. Mickey Rooney, 27, Hollywood's Hardy family perennial now grown to he-man's estate (Killer McCoy); by wife No. 2, Betty Jane Rase Rooney, 21, whom he married when he was a private and she "Miss Birmingham"; after three years and eight months of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. Settlement: $100,000 over ten years, $25,000 for a new house, $5,000 a year for the children...
Gathered. In Kansas City, a marriage license was issued to Orville L. Stone and Mary Jane Moss...