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Married. Charles Saxon Farley Smith, son of South Carolina's Senator Ellison DuRant Smith; and Laura M. Douglas, of Washington; by Rev. Zë Barney Thorne Phillips, Chaplain of the Senate; in Washington...
...letters he includes in his autobiography, saw enough of journalism to be sure it was not his career. Returning to the U. S. he wrote for a left-wing literary magazine called The Liberator, had himself psychoanalyzed, set up a Greenwich Village establishment with a gentle, observant girl named Laura, lived in an experimental colony in New Jersey...
...Thaden. Flying with Co-Pilot Blanche Xoyes in a Beechcraft high-wing biplane. Pilot Thaden started several hours after Warner and Brewer, shot across the U. S. in 14 hr. 54 min. 49 sec., beating by 3 hr. 30 min. the women's East-West record set by Laura Ingalls last year (TIME, July 15, 1935). Miss Ingalls, ahead of her old record, came in second in a Lockheed Orion...
...Royal Academy elected her an associate member and one year later, Husband Harold. As she points out in Oil Paint and Grease Paint, the late Annie Louisa Swynnerton deserves the reputation Laura Knight has been given of being the first woman elected to the Academy since the 18th Century. In 1929 Laura Knight was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
...Dame Laura's book shows off her direct, robust sincerity. A product of her childhood, she tells a story of much violence, dismisses in a sentence a circus fire in which "a sailor and nine Boy Scouts were burned alive." Her paintings have the quality her childhood instructors tried in vain to cure her of-a heavy hand. Her drawing is strong. The point of her pictures is always heartily obvious. Now at 59, she is a highly respectable figure in the British art world with her personal trademarks of a sombrero and velvet jacket, her hair...