Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom he travels?H. G. Wells, who visits him? Ramsay MacDonald, who dined with him last month. A liberal himself (he supported Cox and Davis because of the League issue, voted for Hoover last fall), he has in his immediate family almost every shade of liberal opinion. His eldest son (Thomas S.) is now, at 31, a Morgan partner, is far more conservative than Corliss, who voted for Smith and now teaches Philosophy at Columbia University. And while Mr. Lamont has received many an honorary degree, it was Mrs. Lamont who, after raising four children, earned a Ph.D. at Columbia...
Married. Weston R. Shipstead, 20, Washington preparatory school student, son of Minnesota's dentist-Senator Henrik Shipstead; and a Miss Hazel E. Thompson, 21, beauty shoppe operator; after eloping to Rockville...
Sued for Divorce. King Gaines Gillette, son of King Camp Gillette (safety razors); by Mrs. Elizabeth Caldwell Gillette; at Reno. Grounds: incompatibility. Last week they motored to the Stanford-Southern California game after which Mrs. Gillette went to Reno for a "most friendly divorce," her husband returning to Hollywood...
Died. Norman Trevor, 52, longtime legitimactor (A Kiss For Cinderella, The Captive, The Goose Hangs High), cinemactor (Beau Geste, Sorrell and Son); at the State Hospital for the Insane in Norwalk, Calif., to which, suffering from paranoia, he had recently been removed from a private sanitarium where he had been committed by friends. He was born in Calcutta; engaged in the jute industry before going on the stage. Twenty-nine years ago an all-round athlete on Britain's Olympic team, he was awarded the prize for finest physique among the contestants of all nations...
...Italy had completely decayed. From, the death of Michelangelo to the present day, with the exception of a colorful but shallow digression at Venice, good Italian painting has been practically nonexistent. But in 1884, a sickly boy was born in the Ghetto at Leghorn, Tuscany, to Flaminio Modigliani, son of a Roman usurer. The boy was named Amedeo which means "love of God." Under the guidance of his uncle Isaac described by one of his family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious, passionate, grave. When...