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World War II introduced a croaking note of tragedy; two ravens were killed by German bombs; one died of old age. His relict, Pauline, forced her enthusiastic attentions on Gripp, the surviving male. Gripp and his wife, Mabel, an intensely monogamous couple, were so outraged that they beat up Pauline. She died of her wounds...
...Mabel Caines Joell is a mighty mammal. Every day the breasts of this vast, friendly colored woman produce a quart of milk for her own thriving infant and more than another quart for Manhattan's Mothers' Milk Bureau...
...Mabel Dodge Luhan, arty salon keeper and tireless tell-all (Intimate Memories, et al.), broke out in glittery Town & Country: "I am going to tell you some things about grandmothers. I am one. . . . Their day is over. . . . Nobody wants them. . . . What are they to do?" Simple: they should "love more rather than less as time goes on . . . It is a solution for me, so why cannot it be for others . . . ? I am having a fine time loving people. . . . Sexagenarian Luhan has been married four times-currently to Taos Indian Tony Luhan...
...Died. Mabel Thorp Boardman, 85, queenly* humanitarian who in 40 years as unpaid national secretary of the American Red Cross built on Clara Barton's idea a world-famed organization with 29,000,000 member-contributors ; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington...
...ceiling for detective stories is 20,000 copies (it was somewhat lower before the war). Any author who sells in the 15,000 to 20,000 bracket is tops. In this bracket are writers like Erie Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Mabel Seeley, Mignon Eberhart, Craig Rice...