Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Charles ("Charley") Grapewin, 69, onetime circus acrobat, novelist and vaudevillian, whose cackling portrayals of cinema pas and grandpas (The Good Earth, The Grapes of Wrath) have made his amiable old fox's face familiar to millions of cinemaddicts; and Loretta McGowan Becker, 46, handsome Chicago divorcee; both for the second time; in Chicago...
Died. Romain Rolland, 78, impassioned French novelist and musician, 1915 Nobel Prizewinner for his great ten-volume, semi-autobiographical Jean-Christophe; in Vézelay, France. Long a pacifist, he gave his Nobel Prize money to feed war victims in World War I, retired from France to 24 years "above the battle" in voluntary Swiss exile. Returning to France in 1938, he supported World...
Born. To Erskine Caldwell, 41, novelist, (see U.S. AT WAR) and June Johnson Caldwell, 22, his third wife: their first (his fourth) child, a son; in Tucson, Ariz. Name: Jay Erskine. Weight...
...brunette, bright-eyed daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin, made her formal debut at the Allied Flag Ball and Debutante Cotillion in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria (with 97 other young socialites whose parents had contributed $1,000,000 worth of bonds), brought back memories of the days when her novelist mother, Ellin Mackay Berlin, was Manhattan's brightest debutante...
...Knut Hamsun. Nobel Prizewinning novelist (1920) now universally execrated in Norway, declared "The Germans are fighting for us and . . . crushing England's tyranny...