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French Professor Lewis Piaget-Shanks has translated Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil (Fleurs du Mai); a Major Felten has illustrated the book in 16 modernistic black-&-whites (Ives Washburn...
Died. Mrs. Jane Daugherty, 95, mother of onetime U. S. Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and of former President Mai S. Daugherty of the defunct Ohio State Bank, who is on trial for alleged misuse of its funds; of influenza and heart disease; in Washington Court House, Ohio. She was a signer of her son Mal's $40,000 bond. His trial was adjourned last week when her condition became serious...
Unless you are a student of French literature you probably think of Charles Baudelaire as an overrated, vaguely Satanic poet who wrote a slim volume called Flews du Mai and wanted to be thought more wicked than he was. Biographer Pierre Loving does not so much correct this impression as amplify it. His story of Baudelaire and his times, written as a novel, is solid and appetizing with plenty of factual meat made more appetizing by the artistic sauce...
...list: children of the French and Belgian Ambassadors; the daughters of the Governor of Porto Rico, of the Governor General of the Philippines and of the Secretary of Agriculture; the son of the Secretary of the Navy. Manhattan. Surrounded by liveried negroes, Mr. & Mrs. William Robertson Coe introduced Natalie Mai Coe to society in a setting designed to remind guests that one branch of the family had pre-Civil War Charleston, S. C., connections. The Crystal Room of the Ritz-Carlton was decked out to represent a southern garden, with a Colonial portico at one end. Additional southern atmosphere...
...Last week the Washington Court House, Ohio, sheriff arrested Mr. Daugherty's brother, Mai S. Daugherty and held him for $40,000 bail, in connection with the failure early this year of two local banks, one of them the supposed repository of some of the Ohio Gang's graft...