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Like many another British nobleman hard pressed by taxes and unable to rent his estate, the Earl of Lytton closed his turreted Tudor castle at Knebworth, Hertfordshire. Said he: "For years I have been trying to let it in vain. I cannot afford to live in it longer. It is, of course, a grief to leave our ancestral home in this way, but there is no alternative. They are all going...
...Boston City Hospital. He was studying the relation to cancer of certain fats called lipoids. In transferring a cyanide solution, some, it is presumed, dropped on his hand, was later wiped off on his mouth. He was found unconscious in a corridor, died an hour later. Died. Giles Lytton Strachey, 51, biographer (Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex, Portraits in Miniature); of ulcerative colitis; in Inkpen, Berkshire, England. Born to a world of letters, he dallied with, poetry at Trinity College, Cambridge, then sharpened his phrases for several years on French literature, to which he devoted his first...
...full of inhibitions and morality, the study for psychologists and professors of literature, the butt of disillusioned liberalism. But with the advent of this book into the world the dying years of the Nineteenth Century became an intensely human period peopled by men and women of flesh and blood. Lytton Strachey with his sardonlc pen had traced in a handful of fascinating actors upon a stage where before there had been only a dingy backdrop. But his contribution to literature was even greater than his kindness to a misused epoch, for he blazed a trail along which other men might...
...Lytton Strachey's death has robbed literature of a talented witty pen at a time when there is much need of such a pen, for the field which he developed is being invaded by a host of catch penny writers. The loss of his adroit penetration and his aloof irony is only compensated by the literary legacy which he has left to his colleagues...
...Philadelphia, of severe injuries suffered in an auto crash; Cinemactress Pola Negri, in Santa Monica, Calif., following a critical operation for an intestinal obstruction; Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, of a broken collarbone suffered during his morning canter, when his mount stumbled and fell on him; Biographer Giles Lytton Strachey, of paratyphoid fever; Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, of bruises and a slight case of pleurisy contracted after he was struck by an automobile last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 21). His nose and forehead bandaged, Statesman Churchill left the hospital in a wheelchair after having received Mario Contasino, unemployed...