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Divorced. Constance Talmadge Netcher, 38, oldtime silent cinemactress; from her third husband, Townsend Netcher, wealthy Chicago socialite; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
...sinful, is most attractive character, many an author has used the legend. There are variants by Molière, Shadwell, Mozart, Mérimée Dumas père, Byron, Balzac, Shaw. Not overanxious to compete with such a talented gallery, yet fascinated by the violent Don, Sylvia Townsend Warner decided to take the matter up where the others had left off-with Don Juan's damnation. And so she wrote After the Death of Don Juan (Viking...
...brilliant, hard-working student who finished his undergraduate course in three years, took an M. A. in his fourth. His interests were always violently eclectic, never popular. He fancied French poets but abhorred the self-conscious readings at Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland's rooms, and shied away from the spectacular new drama courses of George Pierce Baker. Harvard scholars then had a Teutonic reverence for degrees, and after a graduate year in Paris Eliot returned to Harvard and worked for a Ph.D. in philosophy, studying Sanskrit and Pali on the side. His Ph.D. thesis on F. H. Bradley...
...Every Thursday for its old folks at the cost of a serious monetary experiment, returned a 100,000 majority against it. Oregon rejected a "citizens' retirement annuity plan" which would have paid up to $100 a month, but instructed its Legislature to memorialize Congress on behalf of the Townsend Plan. Nebraskans refused to license slot machines to provide more pension revenue. Elsewhere the pension cause was successful. North Dakota approved pensions of $40 a month. Colorado rejected an amendment repealing its present $45-a-month pensions which its opponents declared were bankrupting the State. Missourians thought...
...England. Maine has already voted Republican, with confusing pressure from the Townsend old-age pension element. Vermont, still Republican, can contribute only one piece of news to the election: if it should go Democratic it would signify that a fourth successive New Deal landslide had hit the nation. New Hampshire, a more sensitive indicator, needs to swing only slightly to revert to Republicanism...