Word: kiplinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In London, twice-divorced Errol Flynn, 40, sporting a beard grown for a movie-in-progress based on Rudyard Kipling's Kim, announced his engagement to Princess Irene Ghica, 19, a blue-eyed Rumanian beauty, who had just arrived from Paris with a gift of his favorite food: French...
In London, Mrs. Elsie Bambridge, fiftyish, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, clamped down on publication of her father's biography, which she herself had ordered written. The author, the Earl of Birkenhead, who had put in three years on the 160,000-word manuscript, said: "We had disagreed" on certain...
Great Ideas. Insatiably curious, S. S. McClure was always on the go in the U.S. and Europe, had an invariable explanation for his restlessness: "I never get ideas sitting still." Returning to the office, he always berated the editors for stagnating in his absence, then dumped a suitcaseful of "great...
If Rudyard Kipling was right about cats, the dawn-age original of The Cat That Walked by Himself had issued a declaration of independence that all descendants have observed since. But the cats' aloofness and self-reliance have never stopped some people from worshipping them, some people from boiling...
Died. Nelson Doubleday, 59, shrewd, hulking (6 ft. 5 in., 220 lbs.) book publisher (Doubleday & Co.); of cancer; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. The No. 1 book salesman of his time, he took over the business from his father, bought out the Literary Guild in 1934, ended up operating six book...