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Divorced. Francis Lederer, 34, dark-eyed Czech-American actor; by Margo (real name: Maria Margharita Teresa Guadalupe Castilla Bolado), svelte Mexican-born dancer who turned cinemactress (Crime Without Passion, Winterset); after three years' marriage; in Las Vegas...
...himself into a Laborite problem child in the House of Commons, he lost his seat in a Tory landslide, took a crack at foreign corresponding, wound up on the London Evening Standard of Lord Beaverbrook, whom he looks on as "a promising lad from the Dominions." This month the passion for work which keeps Editor Owen at his desk some 19 hours a day exploded in a series of blistering editorials, blasting the lethargy of Britain's war effort. Excerpts...
Biographer White is charmed by the steadfastness with which, during his lifetime of 30 years, Shelley indulged his "passion for reforming the world." He traces every step of it: Shelley's elopement with Harriet Westbrook; their attempts to reform Ireland and Wales; Shelley's desertion of Harriet for Mary (Frankenstein) Godwin, and Harriet's suicide ; his inheritance of a fortune; their last, tragic days in Italy. There Shelley encouraged revolution in Spain, Naples, Greece, England; there he wrote his most important verse; there he drowned. Wrote the Tory Courier: "Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry...
...Fancy doggerel-written, as Millay advises her readers, "in Passion and in Deep Concern"-or, more accurately, in a Terrible Sweat...
Throughout the Colonies, flourishing circulating libraries and packhorse booksellers spread novels to eager readers, mostly female. The "inordinate passion prevalent for novels" galled Thomas Jefferson, who thought they bred "a bloated imagination, sickly judgment, and disgust towards all the real businesses of life." Puritans and preachers classified novel reading with such female indelicacies as leg-crossing and nose-blowing. First U. S. novel appeared in 1789. The native art had three great models...