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...mother was Julia Ward Howe, who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic in a moment of inspiration in 1861 and died in 1910, at 91, without ever having been able to live down or live up to that solitary performance. Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe, a romantic figure, a friend of Lafayette, a soldier in the wars for Greek and Polish independence. In This Was My Newport, Daughter Maud Howe Elliott, now 90, tells what it was like to be the child of celebrities, in a 269-page volume that is half personal and family history, half...
...According to her employers, "she is the daughter of parents who trace their American ancestry back several generations." According to herself, she is part Rumanian, part French, part Russian (she thinks). Her father sold medical instruments. She is an only child. By the time she got out of Julia Richman High, Bette Davis was her idol, and she had seen enough Davis pictures to realize that it takes training to be an actress...
...headed Mike Walton decided to rescue the lovely sheltered Julia from her maternal cocoon, but once he had married her he found himself, like Ulysses, in a land where it was always afternoon. The way in which he won his freedom and at last induced Julia to face up to life may not add to the sum of human knowledge, but it won its author the $10,000 Dodd, Mead-Redbook contest and will probably win her several times 10,000 readers...
...Miss Julia J. Henderson of Wellesley, Massachusetts, will become the first woman student at the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration when she begins her research next term with nine other Littauer Fellowship winners...
Died. Mrs. Julia Columbo, 78, mother of the late famed Bing Crosby-style crooner, Russ Columbo; in Los Angeles. When Russ Columbo was killed in 1934 by the accidental discharge of an antique dueling pistol, his mother was too ill with heart trouble to be told of his death, soon after began losing her eyesight. For ten years the family kept Russ's death secret from her, explained he was having great success in England, read her affectionate weekly letters signed "Russ," inclosing the monthly $398 insurance annuity he had taken out in her favor...