Word: mowrer
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DIED. Elizabeth Hadley Mowrer, 87, the first of Ernest Hemingway's four wives; in Lakeland, Fla. Mowrer (nee Richardson) and Hemingway were married in 1921. Five years later, he divorced her to marry Fashion Writer Pauline Pfeiffer. Remorseful, the novelist dedicated The Sun Also Rises to "Hadley," assigned her its royalties, and wrote fondly of her and their one child "Bumby" in his memoirs, A Moveable Feast. In 1933 Hadley married Paul Scott Mowrer, a Pulitzer-prize-winning foreign correspondent and later editor of the Chicago Daily News...
Died. Edgar Ansel Mowrer, 84, foreign correspondent and syndicated columnist for the Chicago Daily News from 1914 to 1969; on the Portuguese island of Madeira. As Berlin bureau chief in the '30s, Mowrer received a Pulitzer Prize for his vivid reporting on Hitler's rise, was expelled from Germany and enraged Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who said he would expend an army division to capture Mowrer. As a columnist, Mowrer became increasingly conservative and looked on peaceful coexistence with Communism as "the opium of the West...
Died. Paul Scott Mowrer, 83, journalist and author; of a heart attack; in Beaufort, S.C. Sent to Paris by the Chicago Daily News in 1910, Mowrer belonged to the new generation of adventurous but analytical World War I foreign correspondents. He reported the early years of the war from behind French and German lines and hired other dashing young reporters for the News, including his brother Edgar and Raymond Gram Swing, later radio's calm oracle. Mowrer covered the Versailles Treaty talks and the Riff war in Spanish Morocco, became adviser and go-between for diplomats and statesmen...