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André Maurois, best-selling litterateur (Ariel, Byron, The Art of Living), wartime French refugee in Manhattan, and more popular abroad than in France, prepared to move west, to teach at Kansas City U. Subject: European novelists...
...Commander Herbert S. S. Agar, 47, 1934 Pulitzer Prize historian (The People's Choice) and New Dealing editor (Louisville Courier-Journal), for the past two years assistant to U.S. Ambassador John Winant in London; by his second wife, Eleanor Carroll Chilton Agar, 46, Smith-and Oxford-educated socialite-litterateur; after twelve years of marriage (no children); in Palm Beach...
Died. Arthur Symons, 79, British litterateur who outlived the mauve elegance of his contemporaries (Wilde, Beardsley, et al.) to become a respected critic; in Wittersham, Kent, England. As a translator, he introduced to the English-speaking world the Continental refinements of Verlaine, Baudelaire, D'Annunzio. His best-received book, Confessions (1930), was an autobiographical account of an overly sensitive mind lost in Italy and recovered in a British asylum...
...joined Novelists Dorothy Canfield and Christopher Morley, Litterateur Henry Seidel Canby, Informer Clifton Fadiman, as a life replace ment for the late Editor William Allen White...
Died. Colonel John W. (William) Thomason Jr., 51, dashing Leatherneck litterateur; after a brief illness; in San Diego, Calif. A drawling, deadpan Texan, onetime reporter, as a 2nd Lieut. he snatched from Soissons, St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne and Belleau Wood three decorations-as well as the hard-boiled anecdotes and swirling, on-the-spot sketches which first appeared as a book in his best-selling Fix Bayonets (1926). A decade ago he summed up his attitude toward Japan's early conquest in China with the prediction that he would die as a Marine Corps Brigadier General-leading...