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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizen since 1924, Bloch taught in Manhattan, and headed conservatories in Cleveland and San Francisco. But he wanted to compose, not teach. For a time he was subsidized by Cellist Gerald Warburg (son of Banker Felix) and by a wealthy San Francisco family. He retired with his wife and cats to the Oregon seaside in 1941. There, while showing his lute-playing composer daughter how Bach used 48 themes in his Well-Tempered Clavier, he got the theme for the finale of his recent Suite Symphonique. "Suzanne and I were sitting on the little stone steps in the garden...
Divorced. Preston Sturges, 49, ace Hollywood writerdirector; by third wife Louise Sargent Tevis Sturges, 38; after nine years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...ancient & honorable Royal Society, is an organic chemist whose forte is exploring the intricate compounds found in living organisms. He synthesized the delicate substances which color fruits and flowers. He put together artificial sex hormones more powerful than the natural ones. At present he and his chemist-wife Gertrude Maud, whom he met in a laboratory, are working on the production of synthetic penicillin. Organic chemists admire Sir Robert as a master of laboratory strategy. Biochemists honor him for pioneering in the mysterious chemistry of life...
...unfaithful wife murders her husband, just home from the war, whereupon her daughter, who has always loved father as immoderately as she has loathed mother, persuades brother to murder mother's lover. When mother hears of this event (from her son's cruel lips), she shoots herself. Her monstrously affectionate children then suffer a monstrous expiation. Demented by remorse and ingrown desire, the son shoots himself in order to join mother. Daughter determines to "live alone with the dead, and keep their secrets, and let them hound me, until the curse is paid out and the last Mannon...
Mature Consideration. In Kent, Ohio, Louis Thomas filed a petition for divorce, explained that he had been trying to get his wife to come on over from Greece, had finally decided that 37 years of trying was enough...