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...late Novelist Thomas Wolfe was more popular than ever in Asheville, N.C., the town he described as "Altamont" in Look Homeward, Angel. A group of the townspeople, calling themselves the Wolfe Memorial Association, set out to raise money for the restoration and preservation of "that bloody barn," the old Wolfe boardinghouse...
Died. Juliana Force, 67, autocratic director of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, longtime good angel to struggling U.S. artists; after long illness; in Manhattan. As friend and secretary to Sculptress-Art Patroness Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, she began to buy and exhibit promising paintings in 1908, turned the Whitney's annual exhibition into a bellwether of contemporary U.S. painting...
graceful guise Thus sleeping, by an Angel's hand...
...Angel. The hard-pressed British film industry, aching from financial bruises despite the soothing balm of U.S. critics, got some help from the government. Because private investors have shied away from the industry, the Board of Trade set up a $20 million fund to lend to distribution companies and independent producers at low interest rates. The board hopes to step up film production enough so that British theaters can show British movies 45% of the time, thus meet the new quota regulations against U.S. films. Hod Royalty. With building trade wages at a record high, bricklayers in New York were...
...with lean, British-born Actor Rex Harrison, a man Hollywood had nicknamed "Sexy Rexy." One night last week, after Harrison had dined with her at her big Pacific Palisades house, Frances Ridste gulped a few fast highballs and wrote a note to her "Dearest Mommie." She scribbled: "Goodbye, my angel. Pray for me." She signed it, "Your Baby." Then she took a lethal handful of sleeping pills, sank to the bathroom floor, and died...