Evening star., 1961-07-03
Wife Describes Death of Novelist
From Gun Wound as Accidental
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when she heard of the death.
Mr.. Hemingway, at his home,
watched the Motion Picture
Academy awards telecast last
April II. After he saw actor
James Stewards almost tear
full tribute in accepting an hon.
orary Oscar for Mr.. Cooper, the
first hint the actor was ill, he
telephoned Mr.. Cooper and said
he wasn't feeling well. Mr..
Cooper replied:
II bet I'll beat you to the
barn."
Mr.. Cooper died May 13.
Son Of Physician
Mr.. Hemingway, son Of a
physician, was born in Oak
Park, ILL.,, July 81, 1899, mar
ried four times and had three
sons. His father, DR.. Clarence
E. Hemingway, also suffered
from high blood pressure and
diabetes. He was found dead
of a gun wound at his Oak
Park home in 1923.
DR.. Carlos Baker of Prince
ton, a Hemingway scholar, said
the father killed himself be-
cause of i'll health.
Ernest wrote him from
Mayo'S this spring and said he
was suffering from incipient
diabetes, kept under control by
diet.
He wrote that his weight
had reduced from 22O to ITS
pounds and that doctors told
him if he kept his weight down
he had a good chance of COM
ing back strong" DR.. Baker
said.
DR.. Baker said Hemingway
short story, Fathers and
Sons" in which the son is trou-
bled by the fathers suicide, was
autobiographical.
Tribute from Kennedy
President Kennedy, a Pulit-
ger Prize winner himself, said
of Mr.. Hemingway:
Few Americans had a
greater impact on the emotions
and attitudes Of the American
people than Ernest Hemingway.
From his first emergence as
one of the bright literary stars
in Paris during the 20s-as a
chronicler of the lost genera
ton which he was to immorta-
lize-he almost single handedly
transformed the literature and
the ways of thought of men and
women in every country in the
world.
When he began to write. the
American artist had to look for
a home on the left bank of
Paris. Today, the United States
is one of the great centers of
art.
"Although his journeys
throughout the world to
France, to Spain, and even
Africa-made him one of the
great citizens of the world, he
ended life as he began it, in
the heartland of America, to
which he brought renown and
from which he drew his art"
Mr.. Hemingway was a rugged
outdoorsman even in his youth
After high school Che never at
tended college,, he became
cub reporter for the Kansas
City Star, but left soon to be-
come an ambulance driver on
the Italian front in World
War I.
won henOWn III 1873
"A Farewell to Arms" in
which Mr.. Cooper starred when
it was made into a movie, was
based partially on his war ex-
periences and it was with this
novel in 1929 that Mr.. Heming-
way won world renoWn.
In the Paris of the 1920S, Mr..
Hemingway became a disciple
of Gertrude Stein, but he de-
veloped his own revolutionary
style of short, terse sentences.
Miss Stein once called mis- the
lost generation" and it was on
this theme that Mr.. Heming-
way built his early reputation !
with his first novel. The Sun
also Rises" in 1926.
Wars always fascinated Mr..
Hemingway and he based many
of his books on the subject. He
entered enthusiastically into
the Spanish civil war on the
LoyaliSt side.
From this came his brilliant
and angry novel, For Whom
the Bell Tolls" Mr.. Cooper also
starred in a movie version of
this book.
When World War II broke
out. Mr.. Hemingway was again
at the front. spending weeks at '
the regimental headquarters of
Col. Charles T. Lanham, later
a major general commanding '
the First Division in Germany,
now retired. This, too, resulted !
in a novel, Across the River
and into the Trees"
II told my publishers that I
wanted to spell it 'acrost' (sic)
the river-but they made me
spell it across" Mr.. Heming-
way later told friends in a
gaily reminiscent mood.
Correspondents saw him rid
ing through France in a jeep ,
soon after the invasion. his head ,
half smothered in a huge band
age covering an accidental in ..
jury. Gen. Lanham remembered
Mr.. Hemingway as enormously
brave" through the most1dang-
erous battles.
Mr.. Hemingway had homes ,,
here and in Cuba, where he
lived alternately in recent years
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