Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acción Democrática. Although young, Army officers had apparently inspired most of the fighting, the men behind the revolution were chubby, liberal Rómulo Betancourt, new Provisional President, and shy, famed novelist Rómulo Gallegos Freire. Their Democratic Action Party was the political instrument...
Died. Lady Eleanor Smith, 42, novelist (Red Wagon, Flamenco), daughter of the first Earl of Birkenhead; of septic colitis; in London. Prouder of her Romany blood than of her title, she specialized in gypsy and circus stories, wrote her autobiography at eight, did it again at 35 (Life's a Circus) with many a gypsy flourish...
Died. Count Leo Tolstoy, 76, son of the world-famed Russian novelist (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) and distant kinsman of the late, wealthy, best-selling novelist Alexey Tolstoy (Peter the Great), expatriate since his banishment in 1918 because of anti-Bolshevik editorials in his newspaper Vestocha, sculptor and writer, frequent U.S. visitor and lecturer; an Hälsingborg, Sweden...
Married. Captain Roger C. Williams, 29, son of Satevepost novelist Ben Ames Williams; and Jean Gannett, 21, daughter of Maine publisher Guy P. Gannett; in Cape Elizabeth...
Died. Felix Salten, 76, Viennese essayist, novelist, dramatist, known in the U.S. only for his sometimes touching, sometimes saccharine books about animals (most famed: Bambi, Disneyized in 1942) ; after long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...