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...Indian girl, resenting the white woman's friendship with Gilbert, had killed her in a jealous rage; that she had been murdered by squaws who were angered at having her come among them asking personal questions. But then was found an unmailed letter from the girl to her kin in the East. She told of one Indian buck who, as white people had warned her might happen, had taken advantage of her friendly interest, tried to molest her. She wrote that she feared this Indian. Authorities started looking for him. He was, they said, a nomadic Apache from...
...went to Harvard and upon his graduation (1904), much to the surprise of his family, took a law course at Cambridge. Even more surprised was his family when he began to practice his profession in New York. When he went into Republican ward politics in New York City, his kin threw up their hands in social horror. Later he explained: "I was possessed of a fortune but I wanted to put myself, as a matter of personal pride, in a position where I was not dependent upon the income I had inherited. I tackled politics because I concluded that...
...Author. Stefan Zweig, of Salzburg, Austria, is no kin to Arnold Zweig of Berlin, author of The Case of Sergeant Grischa. Well and comfortably educated, he wandered the world, might have continued indefinitely had it not been for the War, which turned him to writing and made him a European bestseller. Manhattan theatre-goers know his adaptation of Ben Jonson's Volpone. Other U. S.-translated books: Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouche...
...Present secretary is Mrs. Frederick B. Butler, wife of one of the Assistant Directors of Public Buildings & Public Parks in Washington. *No kin to Stateman Ariste Briand
...meanwhile married Ivy Low, close kin to Historian Sir Sydney Low and the late Sir Maurice Low, onetime Washington correspondent of the archConservative London Morning Post. Thus Ivy Litvinov comes from the most aristocratic side of Fleet Street, has dabbled in journalism, written a mystery novel. When the Lloyd George Government (1916-22) had had some few contacts with Soviet Representative Litvinov he was arrested, exchanged for an Englishman who had been imprisoned in Russia. Anglo-Soviet relations were broken...