Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Henry de Jouvenel, 59, French Senator, statesman and diplomat, head of the French Congress for the Defense of Peace, onetime Minister of Public Instruction, onetime editor of Le Matin, divorced husband of pert Novelist Colette; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered in the Champs Elysees, where his body was found; in Paris. He distinguished himself as Ambassador to Italy in 1933 by getting Benito Mussolini's signature to the Italo-Anglo-Franco-German Four Power Pact, as High Commissioner in Syria by firmly squelching a revolt of the Druse tribesmen which had got his predecessor into serious difficulties. Eight...
...girl who phoned Don Ameche that day in 1931 was Bernadine Flynn, Don Ameche's co-star at Wisconsin. She, too, had found her was to Broadway. She carried letters of recommendation from Zona Gile, Wisconsin novelist and playwright, who had seen her with Don in Liliom...
Christopher Morley, well known essayist and novelist, waxed a bit sarcastic in the latest number of the Saturday Review in describing the effect of the new Yale College buildings, "where architects have gone whoopsdearie in Gothic. The new Yale needs a lot of walking on to give it character. ...The effect, however, is not as depressing as that endless acreage of synthetic Georgian at Harvard...
...Zook, poker-faced Director of the American Council on Education, reassured Washington newshawks: "This will not be just another survey." Last week the new commission, made up of President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, onetime President Henry Ingraham Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Novelist Dorothy Canneld Fisher, Newton Diehl Baker and ten others, met with its creator. For it Dr. Zook had two presents which gave his boast solid foundation. One was an $800,000 bankroll, put up by the (Rockefeller-endowed) General Education Board. The other was President Homer Price Rainey of Bucknell...
...pneumonia in Moscow early last month fell Boston Merchant Edward A. Filene. Bedded in the Hotel National, he slowly recovered. Ill of pneumonia in Moscow late last month fell French Novelist Henri Barbusse, soon died. Ill of pneumonia in Moscow last week fell Illinois' flower-tongued, silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis. In the suite below the one Merchant Filene had at the Hotel National, doctors called his condition "extremely critical," summoned medical supplies from Berlin and Paris...