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...World War II, Gordon N. Ray, a young Thackeray enthusiast, traveled to England on a money grant from Harvard University and, somewhat to his surprise, induced Mrs. Fuller to let him carry off the horde. She also turned over to him heaps of Thackeray material that she had been amassing for years. Harvard promptly pressed another money grant on lucky Editor Ray. The Guggenheim Foundation sped him a fat check. Libraries, museums, private collectors deluged him with additional material. Last month from the Harvard University Press dropped The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, two volumes...
Rindlander. In Holdrege, Neb., when German P.O.W.s were served their first watermelons, one enthusiast ate his entire piece, rind...
Married. Sir Malcolm Campbell, 60, onetime automobile speed king, still the world's fastest speedboat racer (141.74 m.p.h.); and Betty Humphery Nickory, 38, blonde British yachting enthusiast; both for the second time; in London...
Died. Clifford Burke Harmon, 79, the world's No. 1 amateur air enthusiast, who used his real-estate millions to help indigent flyers and to found the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs (which gave the annual Harmon international air trophies); in Cannes, France...
...messenger was Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish nobleman, Boy Scout enthusiast and general do-gooder who married U.S. Heiress Estelle Manville (Johns-Manville asbestos) in 1928. Recently he had been living near Hamburg, representing the Swedish Red Cross...