Word: zelda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death Wears a White Gardenia-Zelda Popkin-Lippincott ($2). The death by strangulation of the credit manager of a big department store, solved by plodding store detectives to the humiliation of kibitzing professional sleuths...
...Jesse Zelda, mechanic...
Complaint: While repairing a truck on Mr. Hearst's San Simeon ranch, a "vicious, wild and dangerous ostrich" did knock down Mr. Zelda, stamp upon and trample him so that he was unconscious for three hours and suffered from brain concussion, traumatic hernia, nervous shock...
Last week, in Gary Ross's Manhattan studio, Zelda Fitzgerald showed her pictures, made her latest bid for fame. The work of a brilliant introvert, they were vividly painted, intensely rhythmic. A pinkish reminiscence of her ballet days showed figures with enlarged legs and feet-a trick she may have learned from Picasso. An impression of a Dartmouth football game made the stadium look like the portals of a theatre, the players like dancers. Chinese Theatre was a gnarled mass of acrobats with an indicated audience for background. There were two impressionistic portraits of her husband, a verdant Spring...
From a sanatorium last week which she temporarily left against doctors' orders to see a show of Georgia O'Keeffe's art, Zelda Fitzgerald was hoping her pictures would gratify her great ambition-to earn her own living...