Miss Jane Burr, a young' American novelist and poet, is now staying in London for reasons which she explained fully to a "Daily News" representative. They may be summarized thus:—
England seems to be the only place where there's any freedom:
T've got a book to bring out that they won't look at on the other side.
It's so restful over here Miss Burr has a remarkable personality. Although a member of the millionaire Guggenheim family, she dislikes money, and_ will only accept enough to' enable her to write what she wants to write. In her own country she runs a country inn for authors, where only those who can afford to pay do so.
Miss Burr has herself written a book which is so extremely "feminist" that American publishers shied at it. She hopes to get published in England—"because here you can say what" you like." She declares that there is no freedom in America.
"Look at the way your young men and girls kiss each other in the parks. It's perfectly charming, and I simply love to see it; but in America they'd be arrested."
But although Miss Burr is in favour of public love-making, she is not enthusiastic over marriage. "T've no use for it,' she explained. "T can't take responsibility for any nian's socks. What I want is romance—and marriage just knocks that on the head. I married 18, and I was divorced at 24. Then married again, and now I've left my second husband, I like men. but T can't stand having one in the house "A husband should be a sort of week-end institution "Well, yes, perhaps" said Miss Burr, "but a short week-end." of his death is told by friends, who say that just before he took his seat in the plane he said: have a hunch' that I should not fly to-night."
Elliott laughed, they assert, and said: "It is too late in life for you to be getting old maid ideas. Let's go."
A sealed special delivery letter addressed to his mother was found in a pocket of the coat worn by Locklear. The letter, scorched at the edges, was one of the for things which escaped the flames which destroyed the plane.
With the discovery of the letter it was learned that Locklear, who was a confirmed fatalist, invariably carried two articles with him in his flying. One was his identification tag, given him while he was an army aviator, which he wore around his right wrist: the other a letter to his mother containing, it is believed, his farewell message to her.
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