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Born in 1774, slender, brilliantly dark-eyed Elizabeth Ann Bayley, reports Father Feeney, was the most beautiful debutante of Manhattan in her day. One of her distant relatives is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was born a Protestant, married a handsome merchant, William Seton, bore him five children. They went to Italy to improve his frail health, instead were taken off their ship at Livorno and quarantined in a lazaretto because yellow fever had broken out before they left Manhattan. Cold, underfed, Elizabeth made no complaint but prayed in their dungeon while in the next room hard-bitten sailors cursed...
...testing for blocked circulation in fingers and toes. Probably his boldest procedure (the Matas Operation) is to slit the paper-thin wall of an artery which is about to burst, stitch the walls together like a seamstress taking in a pleat, and leaving the artery with a normal size bore. Last week's was the most recent of many honors for Dr. Matas...
Graham Greene, good-looking, slender, 33, is a cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson. His first novel, The Man Within (1929), a psychological study of a cowardly smuggler, bore strong resemblances to Treasure Island. His psychological-action novels have continued to show a Stevenson influence. But though he got off to a flying start with his Stevenson inheritance, he has never been able to travel...
...Unfortunately for Miss Rainer's aspirations and the entertainment value of this picture, a great deal of cinema film has run through projection machines since old New Orleans was first presented as the epitome of U. S. historical glamor. Nowadays it does not seem much better than a bore, and all the flounced dresses, veranda columns and old plantation dialogue in Hollywood-on which The Toy Wife appears to be trying to corner the market-cannot completely change it. Produced with MGM's customarily scrupulous attention to visual detail, the picture relates with considerable pictorial beauty the lachrymose...
Giving herself credit for no very high motives, the author admits that after she was seduced she was wildly promiscuous until she bore an illegitimate son, became a streetwalker after he died. Most interesting but cloudiest part of To beg I am ashamed tells of her brief marriage, which took her to Malaya, where her husband worked for a rubber company. Since he knew of her past, she thought the marriage was hopeless from the start, nevertheless made a desperate effort to become respectable, was frustrated by her former clients, her mother's malicious disclosures, her husband...