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...Barn. Christened Katherine Sage about a half-century ago, Kay left Albany for Italy when she was only three. In the '20s she married and divorced an Italian prince, later learned with Poet Andre Breton and Painter Yves Tanguy to ride the surrealist tide. In 1939 she returned to the U.S., closely followed by Tanguy, to whom she was married a year later. Today the two artists live in a pale yellow farmhouse near Woodbury, Conn, and paint in the barn...
...Pregels? No shadow men, they run Manhattan's Canadian Radium & Uranium Corp. Contrary to Gould, they said that they had invested $145,000 in reopening Caribou (which had been abandoned in the late '20s), after they found uranium-bearing pitchblende in the tailings of the mine. During World War II, Boris Pregel, 57, was general agent for Canada's Eldorado Mining & Refining Co., which supplied the Manhattan Project with nearly all the uranium mined on the North American continent...
...used family pull for permission to attend lectures at a medical school, where she hid behind a screen so that the other medical students would not know a female was present. She spent two years nursing soldiers in the filth of the Crimean War. Then, still in her early 20s, she met a French missionary bishop on his way back to New Zealand. Suzanne decided that the time had at last come to leave home...
When he finished his Navy hitch in 1924, Godfrey no longer dreamed of the Naval Academy or the priesthood. Eager to elbow himself a place in the bustling business world of the '20s, he brought $2,000 in Navy "winnings" back home to Hasbrouck Heights. But his father had died and the fat roll of bills disappeared in settling family debts. Soon he was in a familiar position-on his uppers in a strange city. The city was Detroit where, desperately answering a blind ad, he found himself a door-to-door salesman of cemetery lots. By drawing heavily...
...Here Mrs. The, shewed me my name upon her breast as her Valentine, which will cost me 20s...