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Married: May 24, 1928 to Goldye Stevens, widow of Commander Rodney H. Dobson, who went down with the submarine S-51 off the coast of Rhode Island in September 1925. Two children: a stepson, Rodney, 28 (Annapolis '44), now an engineer with Du Pont, and a daughter, Joan, 21, a Wellesley senior...
...Beach boys, who dabble in bootlegging, drove into downtown Harlan, the county seat, and fired six bullets into 45-year-old Avery Hensley, a former cop. In the words of Kentucky's standard indictment form, Avery Hensley "did then & there die." Six hours later, Avery's stepson Joe Hensley was sitting in a parked car outside the bus terminal when two Harlan policemen and a friend got out of a police car and walked over. One of the three shot him through the head. At week's end, a special grand jury returned murder indictments in both...
...deliberately advised his stepson to refuse to register, he said, and had offered him money to skip to Canada or Mexico. The stepson disregarded the advice and on his 18th birthday registered. But 40-year-old Wirt Warren, a Unitarian and a Socialist who had been drafted as a conscientious objector in World War II, was plainly inviting the U.S. to make something of it anyway...
...thoughtless queries ("Why should not school be an open and natural life, like any other?" "Like what other?" said Mr. Firebrace). There are also numerous succinct summings-up whose blandness is more savage than savagery itself: "Maria had also a vein of justice, and though she regretted [her stepson's] existence and his grandfather's, never questioned their right...
That career has run against the current of modern art. The stepson of a rich St. Petersburg banker, Berman was left homeless at 18 by the Russian Revolution. Settling in Paris, he was enchanted by the "Blue Period" paintings of another alien, Picasso, 18 years older than Berman. By that time, restless "Papa" Picasso was gaining notoriety as a cubist; but Berman, along with his brother Léonid, and his friends Tchelitchew and Bérard, thought cubism something to keep clear of. Their idea was to go on from where Picasso's Blue Period left...