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Died. Margaret Case Harriman, 61, author, who grew up in Manhattan's Hotel Algonquin (her father owned it), became a sort of midtown Malory by chronicling in The Vicious Circle and Blessed Are the Debonair the activities of the 1920s' Algonquin Round Table (a luncheon gathering of such literary jesters as Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman), also contributed articles to Vanity Fair and a series of notable theatrical profiles to The New Yorker; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
Died. Helen Tamiris, 64, dancer and choreographer who was trained as a classical ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in the 1920s, but soon joined with Martha Graham and other rebels to pioneer modern American dance, later choreographed such Broadway hits as Up in Central Park, Annie Get Your Gun and Fanny; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...spite. Langlois cites the run-in with the laws of French colonial bureaucracy as the start of Malraux's fervent anticolonialism. Indeed, he did return to Indochina to start an independence movement, beginning his long flirtation with revolutionaries that led him to fight in China during the 1920s and Spain in the 1930s. Clara is hardly bitter; she even seeks to justify the theft. "Love," says she, "gives one rights...
...Pepys celebrated its endearing combination of solemnity and sweetness, and King Henry VIII was an avid noodler on his collection of 77 recorders. As orchestras grew larger, however, the gentle voice of the recorder was replaced by the stronger tones of the transverse flute. Then, in the early 1920s, an English musician, Arnold Dolmetsch, began making and playing recorders, and started a revival that spread slowly to Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands...
Died. Jim Barnes, 80, golfing hero of the 1920s, twice winner of both the P.G.A. and the British Open, best remembered for his breathtaking nine-stroke victory over Walter Hagen in the 1921 U.S. Open; of a heart attack; in East Orange...