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...Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston; again in 1938 for Andrew Jackson...
Dark-skinned, raven-haired Berlin's main job was to compile weekly reports on the U.S. scene, which he accumulated in part in an interminable round of dinners and cocktail parties. Hostesses and guests were charmed by his Oxford-accented observations on the world and its great; Reporter Berlin was charmed with what he learned. His sparkling accounts became "must" reading for policy-making Britons. Winston Churchill once entertained Composer Irving Berlin at lunch without learning that he was not the "I. Berlin" who signed those fascinating reports from Washington...
Animal Spirits. In Omaha, police arrested a Mrs. Blackfish, a Mrs. Raven, and a Mrs. Beaver for fighting like cats...
Died. Denyse Clairouin, raven-haired French literary agent, translator of D. H. Lawrence and Tagore, and an ardent organizer of anti-Nazi resistance; of pneumonia (on March 12 but just reported), contracted when the Nazis gave her a brutal five-day ride in an open freight car from the Ravensbruck to the Mulhausen concentration camps...
Authors and star performers of the Midwest's little assault on ballet's classic tradition: raven-haired, energetic Ruth Page, high priestess of the dance in Chicago; and Technical Sergeant Bentley Stone, 34, a lanky South Dakotan who got a seven-day furlough from his Air Forces base in Kansas to dance "Johnnie." The Page-Stone team has authored two other U.S. ballets: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (a nightclub murder) and Gold Standard (a sugar-daddy romance...