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...woman of letters (The G-String Murders); and Actor Alexander Kirkland, stage uncle of Junior Miss; he for the first time, she for the second (her first was Robert Mizzy, dental supplier); at midnight in her home at Highland Mills, N.Y. Best man was high-domed Pulitzer Prizewinning Littérateur Carl Van Doren. Gypsy, in a black crepe dress, black shoes & stockings, wore real grapes in her hair. Man & wife went off on a honeymoon "as far as our gas will hold...
...returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. in 1902. Since then he has received degrees from Oxford (D. Litt.), Glasgow (LL.D.), and Cambridge (Litt.D.). He is a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur...
...received the honorary degree D. Litt, from Oxford and an LL.D. from the University of Edinburgh...
...banded together to produce it. Its editor is a German-born exile from Nazi-occupied Czecho-Slovakia and The Netherlands: slight, balding Klaus Mann, son of Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Thomas Mann. Editorial advisers include such refugee notables as Dr. Eduard Benes, Stefan Zweig, Somerset Maugham, such native littérateurs as Playwright Robert Sherwood, Newsman Vincent Sheean, Editor (of The Nation) Freda Kirchwey, Taletellers Stephen Vincent Benét and Sherwood Anderson...
...anonymous author. In his fussily graceful preface, Albert Jay Nock implied not only that Mr. "A. B." is dead but that he is embalmed in more than a few grains of salt. A reviewer for Commonweal suggested that Nock was merely hiding behind himself. In the Herald Tribune, Banker-Littérateur Lewis Galantiere unveiled the Meditator as his "master," Dr. Erasmus Beebe, "the recluse of Remsen Street." (Mr. Galantiere admitted later that he was just having a little fun, hornswoggling credulous readers.) At month's end the author, dead or alive, remained anonymous; his slow-spoken aphorisms continued...