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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Edward Estlin Cummings (e. e. cummings), 34, of Manhattan, mannered novelist (The Enormous Room), playwright (Him), poet (and, is 5) who likes to ignore capital letters, Wartime ambulance driver, son of a Unitarian minister of Cambridge, Mass.; to Anne Minnerly Barton, 31, of Manhattan, onetime wife of Caricaturist Ralph Barton...
Engaged. Arthur Schulte of San Francisco, son of Tobacco Store Tycoon David A. Schulte of Manhattan; to one Luise Meyer of San Francisco...
Engaged. Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, 21, second son of the onetime German Crown Prince; to Lili Damita of Hollywood, French cinemactress. Stopping in Los Angeles, last week. Prince Louis said he liked the town, might stay, might work, might get naturalized...
Married. Joseph Devoe Norton, Boston department store clerk, onetime crack amateur golfer (protege of Amateur Francis Ouimet); and Caroline Isabel Phelan of Boston, daughter of Banker James J. Phelan; in Newton, Mass. Banker Phelan did not fancy a son-in-law who made a career of golf. Golfer Norton stopped playing, went to work...
Back of that is his birth (1818) in Rhenish Prussian Treves, son of a Jewish lawyer, with a long line of learned rabbis behind the lawyer. His years at the universities of Bonn and Berlin were studious, lazy-livered, undramatic. He took his Ph. D., fought no duels. He married the daughter of a high government official. His interest always lay in philosophy and the proletariat. After journalistic ventures in revolutionary twilight zones in Cologne, Paris, Brussels, he fled with his wife, three children and faithful servant "Lenchen," to London, world's warmest haven for refugees...