Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRYING SISTERS-Mabel Seeley-Crime Club ($2). As creepy as Author Seeley's The Listening House, this one plunges a blameless Minnesota librarian into murderous enigmas when she agrees to care for a widower's small son at a resort on Crying Sisters Lake...
...Mabel Thorp Boardman had come back from Berlin, where her uncle was U. S. Minister. Unmarried, she was no longer a Victorian young lady but a Victorian spinster. The Red Cross job was just what she wanted. Imaginative, energetic, with a passion for detail, she got to work with a will. Fifteen years later she was national secretary, has kept the job ever since...
...before, declined again. Her reason: "If there ever arises any doubt about the conduct of the Red Cross or its finances, investigators might be inclined to go easy with a woman. A man would have to accept a merciless inquiry.'' Norman H. Davis accepted the post, and Mabel Boardman remained secretary...
Part of Hutchins Hapgood's "wonderful wasted life" has been told in the candid memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan, for whose famed Manhattan salon he once served as chief talent scout. He appeared again in the autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, under whom he got his start as a journalist specializing in Bowery bums, thugs, anarchists and trends. His late brother Norman, famed reformist editor, and Mary Heaton Vorse are among a half dozen others who included him in their autobiographies. Last week he gave his own version of his story...
...Hapgood's fellow travelers the one who comes off best is, curiously enough, Mabel Dodge Luhan. He admits that she is sometimes caustic, callous, rude, jealous, possessive, vindictive, and worse. But he knows that these traits stem from her "eager love of 'It'-the infinite-with which she wants to be naturally, strongly, connected. She wants to repose quietly and physically on the bosom of God." That Hutchins "Hapgood can understand...