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...first marriage to Anna Wilmarth Thompson, who died in a motor crash in 1935, Mr. Ickes has a son, Raymond, now 26, who last month got a job in the U. S. Attorney's office, Manhattan. He had a stepson, Wilmarth, who committed suicide in 1936. He and the first Mrs. Ickes also had two foster-children: a girl who is now Mrs. ReQua Bryant of Evanston, Ill., and Robert H. Ickes, 25, onetime WPA clerk, now employed by Duquesne Light Co. in Pittsburgh, who last week eloped with Marcelle Charlotte Levine, 19, to Lisbon, Ohio, where they were...
...more than 50 years New York's Roosevelt ladies, Republican and Democrat alike, have bought their clothes at Manhattan's Arnold Constable. (Onetime Department Manager William Kramer once paddywhacked fractious young Teddy Roosevelt, who tagged along with his mother.) Since 1929, all Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's ceremonial clothes have been designed by strapping, golden-blonde Lucille Mahoney, Arnold Constable's designer-buyer. Last week Miss Mahoney completed her most exacting assignment: nine ensembles to be worn during the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth. They include: an ermine stole made of 250 Alaskan pelts...
...dreams, like most people's, are troubled by hints of depravity, but they remain hints. Even suggestive words are disguised. Is the book dirty? Censors will probably never be able to tell. Melting and merging in Earwicker's dream-state, like smoke in a fog, readers sense Anna, the girl with whom he is in love: Anna on the riverbank, Anna Livia, Anna Livia Plurabelle. Through the menacing or ridiculous distortions of his dreams, the thought of Anna Livia breaks with singular lyric beauty...
...appear, usually distorted to suggest both an alien and an English notion. The ablest punster in seven languages, Joyce sometimes combines puns and snatches of songs. Example: "ginabawdy meadabawdy!" (from a passage dealing with Earwicker's dream of a night out). Using a favorite device, he suggests that Anna Livia is the River Liffey by slyly punning on the names of other rivers: "he gave her the tigris eye," "rubbing the mouldaw stains," "And the dneepers of wet and the gangres of sin in it"-for the Tigris, Moldau, Dnieper and Ganges...
...Doodling statisticians have counted up names of 700 rivers in the 20-page Anna Livia section...