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Milwaukee-born Hans ("Dean of Radio Commentators") von Kaltenborn went into radio in the breathless, carbon-mike '20s. In the course of his news gathering, he had an opportunity to rub elbows and knock heads with some of contemporary history's greatest heroes and biggest heels. With no foolish pretense to modesty, Fifty Fabulous Years recalls some of his most colorful experiences...
...weeks. She wrote less & less. In her mid-40s, stirred by rumblings of World War II, she called her muse to the colors, but seldom got beyond the rear areas. The respectable versifying of her last years never recaptured the fine girlish frenzy of the '20s...
Died. Dr. Fritz Wittels, 69, Vienna-born psychoanalyst, disciple of Sigmund Freud; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. After clashing with the master in the '20s ("It is difficult to live in the shadow of a great genius"), Wittels recanted, wrote a eulogistic biography (Freud and His Time...
...Illinois-born Les Hoffman started his career by going into business for himself in the '20s at Albion College, Michigan. His college tailor shop and cleaning concession did so well that "it took me quite a while to get used to the drop in income after I graduated." But it was not until 1939, after he had been everything from a lifeguard to a radio salesman on the West Coast, that he went into business for himself again, selling fluorescent lights in Los Angeles...
Died. Pauline Lord, 60, Broadway star of the '20s and '30s; after long illness; in Alamogordo, N. Mex. Though her greatest roles were tragic (Anna in Anna Christie, Zenobia in Ethan Frome), she showed fine comic talents as Abby in The Late Christopher Bean, as Mrs. Wiggs in the 1934 movie (her first and last) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Cast in a good many flops during her career ("I have always played everything that was put before me"), she usually got high praise from the critics in both good plays...