Word: laura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Johnny Weissmuller, 34, longtime cinema Tarzan, No. 1 swimmer of the New York World's Fair Aquacade; and Beryl Laura Scott, 23, daughter of the owner of San Francisco's Turko-Persian Rug Cleaning Co.; he for the third time, she for the first; in Garfield...
...bred, raised and trained in captivity. He has taught them to do practically anything otter-hunting dogs can do. The heavy (average: 24 Ibs.), healthy animals perform tricks, follow a scent, retrieve pheasants and ducks with the speed of a prize cocker spaniel. As playful as "Saki's" Laura, who turned into an otter to plague a friend's husband, they are quick to learn, eager to please...
Divorced. Burleigh Grimes, 45, crack spitball pitcher of the 19205; from his second wife, Laura Virginia Grimes ; in Union, Mo. Charge: "general indignities." Died. Mrs. Charles W. Gamble ("Mollie Ticklepitcher"), 51; of cancer; in Jasper, Tenn. A tank town actress, she hoaxed Phillips Lord into letting her speak over his We, the People radio program by passing herself off as a backwoods midwife (TIME...
...myself, I do not feel quite as confident about Laura Riding's status as you do. What's the difference? What you said . . . was a great boost for a viewpoint which it has taken some of us a third of a century |to present...
...reader who expects these poems "to evoke in him the flattering sensation of understanding more than he knows" will soon be dashed. But a reader who approaches these poems as literal communications may at length understand them. Readers, says Laura Riding, are accustomed to the kind of poetry written in what she calls "a tradition of male monologue." Laura Riding's poems are no monologues: they are direct communications of personal knowledge from herself to the reader. These poems make such unfaltering sense that most readers' attention will falter before them...