Word: spotswood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first novel in this new series, Adventures of a Young Man, told the raw, resentful story of middle-class Radical Glenn Spotswood who became a Red organizer, was forced to leave his striking worker comrades in the lurch after a twist of party line, was expelled from the party for "deviations," and then died a lonely death in Spain at the hands of his ex-comrades...
...this magnum opus, there were old snapshots and paintings, an album of "The Belles of Our Time," whose 13 beauties included Mrs. Dandridge Spotswood (1908), later the Baroness Eugene de Rothschild; Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson modeling for her husband's "Gibson Girl" (1896); Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill (1906). There was also a tour of Bohemias (homegrown and foreign) that wound up in a lush wilderness of fashion, liquor and perfume ads. Editor Bull's dollar-a-copy production number was certain to sit well where Town & Country is read: in paneled libraries, and under the dryers...