Word: nora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Errol Leslie Flynn, 37, swashbuckler of cinema, café and courtroom, and Nora Eddington Flynn, 23: their second daughter, his third child (he has a son by his former wife, Cinemactress Lili Damita); in Burbank, Calif. Name: Rory. Weight...
...newborn child (Stephen Joyce) that Joyce wrote of is now 15, and enrolled at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Baptized a Catholic without his fond grandfather's knowledge, Stephen went to school during the war at Glion, Switzerland. In Zurich last week his father, Giorgio Joyce, and his grandmother, Nora (Joyce's widow), were living in threadbare bleakness, victims of wartime exchange restrictions which still allowed them to receive only ?75 a year from the Joyce estate in London, to which all royalties on the books are paid...
...besides), stammered, "But, mother, aren't you . . .?" Edwina sprang nervously, dropped her needlework, began fussing with her dress and her hair. By the time she reached the front hall, the colored maid had opened the door. There was Mal, her brother. And there, standing with him, was Nora, his grown daughter, whom none of the family had ever seen...
...Long Wing is a story of the impact of the Maclouds on 18-year-old Nora. Quietly written, with even less "plot" and hardly more fictional fireworks than might be found in an Elizabeth Bowen story, it is perceptive, skillful, and now & then witty. Emerson once shrewdly observed: "Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see across a gulf." This is an account of the Macloud gulf, told mostly in terms of young Nora's reactions and those of her father, who at points finds himself quite as baffled...
...feature that is very popular with habitues is the large library of recorded poetry which may be heard over earphones on the two machines provided for that purpose, according to Miss Nora Cordingley, who takes time out from her duties as curator of Widener's Roosevelt Collection to assist John L. Sweeney, curator of the Poetry Room since...