Word: twain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, 51, only one of Mark Twain's four daughters to survive him; and Jacques Samossoud, 53, Russian-born conductor; in Hollywood. Her husband for 27 years was Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Detroit Symphony's Russian-born pianist-conductor, who died...
...Adventures of Mark Twain (Fredric March, Alexis Smith; TIME...
...Navy officer is hit over the head with a bottle of gin by his fiancee when she sees him kissing another girl. Sound familiar? It's not what happened to you last weekend; it's only the beginning of the revival of Mark Twain's fantasy, "A Connecticut Yankee." Attempts to streamline the new production and shake off the dust it has acquired have largely failed. Despite some moments of light humor, it oftens becomes so dull that you wish someone would hit you over the head with a bottle of gin and put you out of your misery...
...Mark Twain could see the present production, he would probably be sorry he ever released the copyright on his delightful maspterpiece...
Samuel Sidney McClure, original muckraking publisher (McClure's Magazine, 1893-1914), won the Order of Merit of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for his past journalistic crusades. Now white-thatched, withered, 87, the onetime editor of Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Winston Churchill's father Randolph has been working for years on a book called The Coming of Freedom. Said National Institute President Arthur ("Mr. Tutt") Train: "The American people owe a great debt to this man, once famous, now almost forgotten." Said old-time Editor McClure (who will...