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Eleanor Belmont, a former actress and wife of Millionaire August, hired Houdini to be handcuffed, bound with ropes and chains and dropped overboard from the family yacht, merely to divert some friends. Toward the end of her career, she was heard correcting the upright novelist John P. Marquand for his lack of taste and reticence...
...flattered, in a way, by the claim that I could somehow put a club-wielding workman, in the presence of three of his friends, in fear of bodily harm. I won't embarrass myself here with too strenuous a denial. I will note only that when I told John Marquand about the charge, he laughed himself half way across the Yard...
Described y friends, co-workers and professors as "brilliant," "intense" and "charismatic." Shelton had "a radical perspective on society," said Marquand...
However, Edward Redlich '81, a close friend of Shelton's since seventh grade, denied that Shelton was feeling any "Law School pressure." And both Lesberg and Assistant Dean of the College John Marquand, Shelton's undergraduate adviser, said that Shelton's undergraduate adviser, said that Shelton had seemed cheerful in recent weeks, recovering from a temporary depression he suffered earlier in the year...
...fairly transparent person--direct and open," said Marquand, who expressed doubt that suicide was a possibility...