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...Barbara Mutton, who has been playing on-again-off-again-Finnegan with her husband, Cinemactor Gary Grant, delivered a weighty new decision: "After much thought . . . we can be happier living apart...
...There is rollicking music from the deep throats of the mountaineers in church, singing "Lonesome Valley" to save a boy and girl who "pleasured themselves" indiscreetly; and there is delicate ballet in an aura of the supernatural when Lista, the Dark Witch, and Croma, the Fair Witch, jealous of Barbara Allen--"we ain't got nothin' again her, only we just as soon she's daid"--flit by John in the forest, flaunting their sensuous beauty, mocking his effort to escape the fetters of Hell and assume human form...
...Born. To Barbara Bel Geddes Schreuer, 22, pretty actress daughter of future-gazing Designer Norman Bel Geddes; and Carl Schreuer, 26, marine electrical engineer: their first child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Susan. Weight...
Folks at home began to feel embarrassed. Almost since the war started, they had innocently used the term "G.I. Joe." Then from Santa Barbara, Calif., came a report that soldiers resented it, thought it patronizing. Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon gave his old-soldier version of the name: "For over 40 years a Joe has meant a Jasper, a Joskin, a yokel, a hey-rube, a hick, a clodhopper, a sucker." Runyon remembered that in the last war G.I. (i.e., "government issue") meant "the big galvanized iron garbage and ash can in the back of each company barracks...
...Sunday afternoon in 1923 his most ambitious work, The Prophet, was read in Manhattan's Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie. In the audience was Barbara Young, who then was working in a bookstore in the Brevoort Hotel, has had a poem published in the New York Times almost every week since 1922. She became the most ardent Gibran follower and at his death in 1931, his literary executor. This Man from Lebanon, her memorial volume to the Master, suffers from its hushed reverence before Kahlil Gibran's slightest words and actions...