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Life Timeline (1952-1953)

1952		With Reeves sails on the Constitution for Naples, Italy on January 30. Carson and Reeves stay in Rome from early February to early April. Drives to Paris with Reeves in April and buy hoise at Bachivillers near Paris. Inducted in absentia into the National Institute of Arts and Letters on May 28. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Collected Short Stories published by HOughton Mifflin in mid-summer. During summer returns to Nyack to see Marguerite Smith, who suffered a heart attack and a fall. "The Dual Angel: A Meditation on Origin and Choice", a poem, published in July Mademoiselle. Goes to Rome with Reeves in September; works on film script for David O. Selznik's "Terminal Station". "The Dual Angel" printed in Italian literary journal Botteghe Oscure. Marguerite Smith ill again. Returns to Nyack alone in late summer. Lamar Smith, Jr., moves from Forida to Columbus, Georgia during summer. Marguerite Smith returns to Columbus with son and his family. Nyack house cared for by Reeves's mother and sister. From mid to late October, hospitalized for a week at Salvador Mundi Clinic in Rome. Returns with Reeves to Bachivillers in November. Hosts friends from American Hospital in Paris for Thanksgiving dinner at Bachivillers. Carson and Reeves guests of friends at American Hospital for Christmas.
1953		"The Pestle" (Part I of Clock Without Hands) simultaneously published in Mademoiselle and Botteghe Oscure in July. In late summer Reeves tries to convince Carson to commit suicide with him. Carson flees to the United States. Marguerite Smith returns to Nyack from visit to Columbus to care for Carson. Reeves commits suicide in Paris on November 18. Reeves's body found in Paris hotel on November 19. Hears of Reeves's death while visiting author Lillian Smith in Clayton, Georgia. Visits Dr. Hervey Cleckley in Augusta, Georgia from November 21 to November 25. Returns to Nyack on November 25. Reeves's obituary appears in the November 27 New York times. Returns to the south on December 3. Favorite aunt, Martha Waters Johnson, dies in Columbus on December 15. Returns from south to Nyack to be with mother. "The Invisible Wall", television adaption of short story "The Sojourner", broadcast December 27 on Ford Foundation program Omnibus

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