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...Rome, a reporter dropped around to her night club for a chat with Bricktop (Ada Smith Du Congé), famed as a cabaret hostess among Paris' Left Bank literary set in the '20s. Asked if she remembered F. Scott Fitzgerald, the throaty West Virginia-born Negro songstress said: "Sho-nuf darling, I remember all those darlings. There was Scott, and his wife Zelda, she was nice. There was Hemingway, too, already famous. And Louis Bromfield and John Steinbeck. Steinbeck, he's my darling of all darlings, except of course Cole Porter. He's my favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Job | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Died. Allan M. Hirsh, 73, Virginia-born sewer-pipe manufacturer with an old claim to fame: as a college sophomore (Yale '01), he wrote Boola-Boola, the football song; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 31, 1951 | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Died. Edwin Leland James, 61, for 19 years managing editor of the New York Times; of a heart disease; in Manhattan. Jaunty, cane-swinging, Virginia-born "Jimmy" James first cubbed for the Baltimore Sun, became a regular Times byliner with his World War I front-line dispatches, stayed in Europe for the Times until called home in 1930, built up the Times's crack foreign staff. One of his best-known leads was on the 1918 Armistice: "In a twinkling, four years of killing and massacre stopped as if God had swept His omnipotent finger across the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1951 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

Divorced. By the Honorable Francis David Langhorne Astor, 39, editor of London's sedate Observer, second son of Virginia-born Lady Astor: Melanie Hausser Astor, after six years of marriage, one daughter; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 6, 1951 | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...Scott Fitzgerald was not the only American to part with "so many hours and so much money" in Bricktop's. From 1924 to 1939, until war drove her home to the U.S. for a while, Bricktop (real name: Ada Smith du Congé), a West Virginia-born Negro woman with a mop of rusty orange hair, played hostess to a whole generation of footloose Americans in her Montmartre nightclub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Moved from Montmartre | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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