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Their discovery occurred during the long interrogation of Author John P. Marquand for his cover story in this issue. In Marquand's case there was a great deal of controversial material to be gone over, and Gissen's and Miss Mehrtens' talks with him, which began in TIME'S offices in Manhattan, were by no means finished when it was time for the Marquands to go to Nassau for their winter vacation. So the conversations were continued in Nassau. The most successful of them took place the day that Author Marquand hired a sloop and conveyed...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Robert Morley and Irene Rich in J. P. Marquand's The Late George Apley...
Died. Alfred Robert McIntyre, 62, president of the century-old book publishing firm, Little, Brown & Co.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. Mclntyre believed in a policy of "fewer and better books," helped develop such authors as James Hilton, A. J. Cronin, John P. Marquand...
...Salem, Mass., some people named Hale, cousins of Author John P. Marquand, identified themselves as the characters in Wickford Point, the 1939 Marquand bestseller about upper-class decline & fall. The Hales are co-owners with Marquand of Curzon Mill, where the family has lived for generations, and which they say is the scene of the book. John has been trying to buy them out, and the money-poor, land-proud Hales took the case to court rather than move off their home place ("We want it because it has been a part of us for so long. And when...
...opera cape in some carpeted corridor. And William M. Chase had come upon the bemonocled Whistler sporting an absurd little cane and striking his dandy's pose. But most of the Edwardians represented at the museum (the Phelps Stokeses, the Wyndham sisters, Mme. Gautreau, Miss Ada Rehan, Henry Marquand) had sought out, or been sought out by, the slickest and most fashionable painter of their day to immortalize them -John Singer Sargent...