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Family & Early Years: Born in the Boston suburb of West Newton in 1893 of a well-to-do family. His father, John Wingate Weeks, was a Boston broker, onetime Senator from Massachusetts, and Secretary of War under Harding and Coolidge. At Harvard, "Sinnie" Weeks was a classmate (1914) of Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall and Harvard's President James B. Conant. A World War I artillery captain in the 26th (Yankee) Division, Weeks is still a faithful member of the Dugout Club, an association of former Y.D. officers...
Claire was born in London in 1931. Her father, Edward Blume, is an advertising man who has spent the last five years in South Africa. Her mother comes from a well-to-do manufacturing family (picture frames). When she divorced her husband in 1950, Mrs. Blume had already changed the spelling of her last name...
Married. Princess Atsuko, 21, third daughter of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, and Takamasa Ikeda, 25, well-to-do dairy farmer and son of the former Marquis Ikeda, who gave up his title after World War II; in Tokyo. The Princess' marriage to a commoner stripped her of an annual 650,000 yen ($1,800) royal allowance. The Emperor was in bed with a cold but the Empress, with 30 members of the royal family, attended the ancient and austere Shinto ceremony...
Poetry's circulation has never risen much over 4,000, and the magazine has never paid its own way. The editors have been able to solve this problem by buttonholing well-to-do well-wishers. Nowadays the head of the fund-raising committee is Mrs. Ellen Stevenson, ex-wife of Adlai Stevenson, herself an occasional contributor to Poetry. But over the years, editors have been confronted with another problem even graver: somewhere along the line, U.S. poetry ceased to fizz...
...poet in question was Aleister Crowley, 58, born the son of well-to-do evangelical parents. His parents had lived their own lives as active Christian laymen, and done their best to make him follow their example. They had given him the baptismal name of Edward Alexander, but he preferred others. Perhaps his favorite name for himself (adopted from the book of Revelation) was "The Beast whose number is 666." When he died, at 72, he was popularly known as "The Worst Man in Britain" and "The Wickedest Man in the World." His literary executor, John Symonds, has now written...