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April 20, 1940 P. 24

April 20, 1940 P. 24

The New Yorker, April 20, 1940 P. 24

Profile of Dorothy Thompson. In 1923, Miss Thompson married a man whom she could eventually neither dominate nor control. He was Josef Bard, a Hungarian who was romantic-looking, popular with women, brilliant in conversation, and-as a husband elusive. He had written several books about philosophy andone novel which was translated into English, but he talked better than he wrote, and his professional reputatio was rapidly eclipsed by his wife. The Bards domestic crises soon echoed as far as the first World Economic Conference in Geneva. American correspondents who had assembled there to cover the conference remember how Miss Thompson turned up alone one day, although she had no assignment, and spent most of the week sitting in the International Bar. They were divorced in 1927.

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