Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest Hemingway, sporting a lush bush, was nightclub-sitting with Fellow Author John Steinbeck, who has just started to become a beaver, when (reported New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons) they were asked: "Why the beards?" Steinbeck: "Obviously, an affectation." Hemingway: "Obviously, to cover a rash...
Awful Truth. In Manhattan, New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that in California a psychiatric patient was asked if he were Napoleon. He craftily said "No." A lie detector showed he was lying...
...wrote short stories all her life, sketching them out in very rough form and putting them away in a drawer to mellow. Or she wrote them to rest her mind while she was writing her novels. Published last week was a posthumous collection of 18, selected by her husband, Leonard Woolf. The book will please collectors...
...home, too delicate a child to stand normal schooling. Her mother died when she was 13, her father when she was 22. She wrote her first book, The Voyage Out, in 1906 when she was 25, but did not publish it until 1915. In 1912 she married brisk Editor Leonard Woolf, with whom she published books that the London Times described as "having a political trend to the Left." Several times in her life she had had intimations of insanity. During the blitz she was twice bombed out of her house, and moved to Monks House, a long, low, green...
...special regional news not obtained from the press, a West Virginia radio chain had set up its own bureau in Washington, D.C. The chain is the four-station† enterprise of John A. Kennedy (now in the Navy) and Howard Leonard Chernoff, a pair of ex-Washington Hearst...