Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aptitudes include editing, photography, research, mechanical ability and willingness to adjust to any occupation or environment. Assets-wife and twins...
...sleepy, upper-middle-class London publisher, father of four grown children; and Mary Fane, who putters around their country home planning parish fêtes and dinners for twelve. At 53 John finds he has money, leisure, no fun. Soon he has a town apartment, a mistress, no wife...
Unlike these three old-fashioned rousers, Royal Regiment, by Gilbert Frankau (Dutton, $2.50), is as modern as gas masks for babies. Laid in 1936-37, it tells what happens when Major "Rusty" Rockingham, bachelor scion of an aristocratic British military family, falls in love with the dazzling American wife of his hardbitten colonel. Nothing happens: at the last moment both Rockingham and Camilla renounce their honorable passion for the greater honor of Empire. The Wally Simpson case, which breaks simultaneously, makes a well-pointed contrast...
...Owner Frederic McLaughlin, polo-playing millionaire coffee man, apparently has put great store in the old sport maxim, "Pan the players and can the coach." In 13 years he has canned ten managers-a record for major-league hockey. "He tried almost everyone except Irene Castle [his divorce-seeking wife]," one sportswriter commented...
Among the book gifts 500 volumes Herbert Weir Smith, former professor at were given from the library of the late Harvard, by his wife in his memory. A box of Daniel Webster's letters and a library of 1,800 volumes was received from the estate of Mrs. Ella Haven Ross, of Boston...