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...have tried, by the offer I brought, to help India along her road to victory and freedom. But, for the moment, past distrust has proved too strong to allow a present settlement...
Agent Myron Selznick was divorced by ex-Cinemactress Marjorie Daw. She got custody of their daughter, a settlement of some $1,200 a month...
Author Schoyer's foreground is an international settlement -an assortment of the people whom the Chinese call Big Noses-foreign missionaries, doctors, teachers and their families, in a city in Central China. For the first 300 pages they are absorbed in fighting about the erection of a monument to a presumably martyred missionary-a monument which will be dangerously insulting to the Chinese. For the next 300 pages they are engulfed in broader troubles-the Japanese invasion. By the end of the book their city is in ruins...
...sports as riding, swimming, tennis, dancing. Finch girls also take turns practicing housekeeping and interior decorating in a model apartment (Mrs. Cosgrave likes to tell about the Southern belle who once rushed excitedly into the dean's office and announced: "I've just cracked an egg"), visit settlement houses to tell children stories. They can take courses in income management, secretarial work, business...
Divorced. Pulitzer Prizewinning Novelist John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), 40; by Carol Henning Steinbeck, 38; after an eleven-month separation; in Salinas, Calif. She won a settlement of $220,000 and the Steinbeck home at Pacific Grove, Calif...