Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choice of subject was Candle Follows his Nose, short story by his one-time (New York World) colleague Columnist Heywood Broun. Last spring he announced that he had shelved Candle in favor of Street Scene (TIME, March 18), current Pulitzer-prizewinning play by Elmer Rice, about Manhattan tene- ment life. Last week he announced that he had again changed his mind, that he is now moulding a libretto from George Louis Palmel la Busson Du Maurier's novel Peter Ibbetson, famed in the stage version acted by John Barrymore and Constance Collier. Metropolitan Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza has approved...
Died. Daniel Frederick Appel, 72, old-time insuranceman, president of New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., director of Old Colony Trust Co.; in Boston; after an illness of several weeks...
Died. David Van Schaack, 60, Director of Bureau of Inspection & Accident Pre vention of Aetna Life Insurance Co., a founder (1912) and twice president of the National Safety Council, onetime editor of National Safety News; at Hartford, Conn.; after a heart attack...
...case ordered disinterment of his body. When the body was removed last week from its coffin in the crypt of Loigny Church, where it had lain since 1887, it was reported to be in a "miraculous" state of preservation?no rigor mortis, hair and skin "as natural as in life." General de Sonis Was beatified...
...Careless of the social niceties, when his tea is too hot he pours it into the saucer to cool it. Careful of pennies, he will stamp out of a tobacconist's shop in high dudgeon if he thinks the pipe-tobacco a halfpenny dearer than it should be. His life has been unexciting. He pays little attention to young critics who dismiss his poetry with the same adjective...