Word: townshend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intellect as Passion. Shaw left no children and "expressed regret that his marriage had been fruitless." The fact was, says Biographer Ervine, that Charlotte Payne-Townshend had a morbid "horror of sexual relations." But no man ever had a better helpmate than Charlotte. When she died in 1943, Shaw became "hysterical" with sorrow, shedding tears one moment and trying to sing the next...
Miss HARRIET TOWNSHEND (287 pp.)-Kathleen Norris-Doubleday...
...comes between them. He is an Oxford-educated rancher, but a Don Juan rather than a don. One of the girls ropes him, of course. The other gets a consolation prize: a mere unlarned cow poke, he is, who did not even get to Cambridge. Miss Harriet Townshend is vintage Kathleen Norris-sweet, inoffensive, forgettable...
...Turkish brigade (5,000 men) is led by Brigadier General Tahsin Yazici, who likes to twit British war correspondents with such remarks as, "Yes, I remember your General Townshend well. We took him prisoner at Kut-el-Amara [in 1916]." Last week Yazici's smart, tightly disciplined Turks were thrown in to hold the line the R.O.K.s abandoned east of Kaechon. Estimated Turkish casualties at week's end: 500. A U.S. doctor said it seemed that a Turk waited until he had at least three wounds before he reported to the medics...