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...Little Thing Here ..." Off the diamond, Luke likes flashy ties and clothes (last week he appeared in a green gabardine number), fat black cigars and dry Martinis. Balding and somewhat spavined but not fat, he has a wife and three children, an eleven-acre place in Georgia where he keeps in shape during the offseason and where he expects to "relax" when his baseball days are over, whenever that...
When he got out, Gara found a job as history teacher and dean of men at Ohio's small, Mennonite Bluffton College. For 26-year-old Larry Gara and his wife, Lanna Mae, a new life opened up. But last fall his conscience dropped him into hot water again. When one of Bluffton's students refused to register for peacetime military training, Gara and his wife hustled...
Married. John Dos Passes, 53, best-selling naturalistic novelist (Three Soldiers, U.S.A.); and Elizabeth Hamlin Holdridge, fortyish, widow of Author-Explorer Desmond Holdridge; each for the second time (his first wife was killed two years ago in an automobile accident in which Dos Passos lost an eye); in Towson...
Died. Mrs. Mathilde Townsend Welles, 64, second wife of onetime (1937-43) Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles; of peritonitis; in Lausanne, Switzerland, where they were resting after his near escape from death in Maryland last December (he was found half-frozen and unconscious after collapsing while out for a walk...
...darkness around him, Strindberg saw only enemies, including his own wife, whom he suspected of deceiving him and being a Lesbian. Insanely jealous, he came to believe that Siri's children were not his (a suspicion he dramatized in his play, The Father). For a while Siri and August lived in a filthy old castle near Copenhagen, together with a mad Countess who played the hurdy-gurdy, a gypsy steward who practiced hypnotism, and a pack of wild dogs...