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Black-Market Hero. During the war Grant rides high ("I'm too old to fight, all I can do is to make a profit"). He plunges into the black market and secret deals with the Axis, is snared by an avaricious blonde whose mind is as corrupt as his...
All but four of the would-be suicides were willing to give "reasons." The largest number, 36, blamed "sweetheart trouble." But the researchers noted dryly that "frustrated lovers as a rule do not use effectual methods of suicide." The next largest number, 20, blamed alcohol. Other explanations listed: delusions, 9...
Married. Ida Lupino, 30, high-strung Hollywood specialist in neurotic roles; and Collier Young, 39, Columbia studio executive; each for the second time; in La Jolla, Calif.
Gide published his first book, anonymously and at his own expense, when he was 21. The Notebooks of Andre Walter (1891) was the thinly disguised story of his own neurotic love for his cousin Emmanuele. Novelist-Critic Charles Huysmans promptly labeled it "a product of hideous vulgarities." Few people read...
Nothing But Flops. At 23 Gide was a pale, thin neurotic who roamed the streets of Paris with brown beard, affectedly long hair and a spectacular cape. Timid and tongue-tied in public, he was constantly depressed about his work, his cousin Emmanuèele's refusal to marry...