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...Manhattan to see about business matters before going to Taos, N. Mex., Mrs. David Herbert Lawrence, German relict of the British writer, cousin of the late great German War Ace Manfred von Richthofen, said: "We were together for 18 years. I was a married woman of 32 and had three children when we met. And he was 26. He had no money, and my family cut me off. Such courage he had! . . . You would know he was unusual, just by seeing him in a crowd." Concerning John Middleton Murry, whose biography of Lawrence recently appeared (TIME, May 4), she cried...
...more passionate than the common run of men, but less passionate." This was the key to all his writing, to his whole life. Murry intimates that Bertha Coutts. one of the least lovely characters in Lady Chatterlcy's Lover, was really Lawrence's own wife, Frieda von Richthofen, whom Lawrence at times hated but could not do without. Murry thinks Lawrence's horror of the War, his sense of persecution and consequent hegira to Italy, Australia, Mexico, the U. S.. his reiterated vituperation against all the Christian virtues, were really only reactions of impotence...
...Ernst Udet was an ace second only to famed Baron von Richthofen. An Iron Cross man and squadron com-mander at the age of 22, he was credited with bringing down 62 Allied planes-by himself. Lately he has devoted himself to cinema, was featured as the flyer in Ufa's The White Hell of Pitz Palu...
...Author. The late David Herbert Lawrence died at Vence near Nice last March of tuberculosis. Son of a coalminer in central England, he had a hard time all his life. In 1914 he tactlessly married Frieda von Richthofen, sister of the famed German flyer. Three times declared consumptive, unfit for military service, he was nevertheless suspected of pacifism or worse, did not enjoy the War. After the Armistice he left England, wandered the world, lived for a while near Taos, N. Mex. Other books: Sons and Lovers, Aaron's Rod, Fantasies of the Unconscious, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley...
...Author. David Herbert Lawrence was born in Nottingham, England, in 1885, went to Nottingham High School, Nottingham University. In 1914 he married Frieda von Richthofen. Declared consumptive three times and unfit for service, he was hounded by the military police. After the War he left England, wandered through Europe, lived in Italy, Australia, now lives in the U. S., 15 miles from Taos, N. Mex. He was a great friend of the late great Katherine Mansfield, of her husband J. Middleton Murry...