Word: maker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beginning with a middle-aged matron and a bit of perplexing gossip, The Deep Mrs. Sykes ends by revealing the key dislocations in half a dozen lives. For all her inscrutable airs and vaunted "intuitions," Carrie Sykes (Catherine Willard) is just a stupid mischief-maker and egoist. When a woman in her cups spills the story that someone has been anonymously sending flowers to a neighborhood bride, Carrie suspects her own husband (Neil Hamilton), but lets the intoxicated woman-who goes haywire with jealousy-imagine it is hers. Actually it is Mrs. Sykes's married son-and gradually there...
Died. Lord Alfred Douglas, 74, scholar, sonneteer, son of boxing's famed rules-maker, the late eighth Marquess of Queensberry, whose note denouncing young Alfred's friend, Oscar Wilde, was the cause of Wilde's libel suit and subsequent imprisonment for pederasty; after long illness ; in Lancing, Sussex, England. Lord Alfred spent a lifetime defending and explaining himself and his poet friend (Oscar, Wilde and Myself, Autobiography, Oscar Wilde: a Summing...
...Protestant churches think that funerals cost too much, but they have tried only half-heartedly to get funeral prices down. The Federal Council of Churches, feeling that the time had come for action, made a survey, came up with a flat charge: many an undertaker, cemetery and tombstone maker is fattening on human grief...
Died. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, 64, onetime Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois, daughter of Ohio's President-Maker Marcus Hanna, widow of Illinois' Senator Medill McCormick, wife of a one time Congressman from New Mexico; of pancreatitis; in Chicago...
...Maker & Breaker. Critic Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle book reviewer, has been a West Coast literary authority for 20 years. Now 50, he was born in New Jersey, studied at Lafayette, was a lieutenant in World War I. He got into advertising in California after the war, was editor of Sunset Magazine for eight years. In 1924 he began a weekly half- hour broadcast on books over San Francisco's station KGO which was steadily popular until he quit...