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Found another magazine article with an image of the gun in question; "Motion Picture" August 1936
https://archive.org/details/motionpicture52moti/page/n35/mode/2up

Martha Gellhorn led quite a life, both before and after her marriage to Hemingway. She wasn't interested in being famous for being his wife:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn

That is an impressive curriculum vitae Thanks for the link.

Yuck.She would make a terrible wife and did.
Seems like a gold-digger.
He was a worse husband as well. All 4 times

Hadley was the best of his wives.

She may have been a terrible wife. Maybe as bad a wife as Hemmingway was a husband but she was for damn sure no gold digger.

One can easily make the case that she saw the career value that being EH's wife would bring her.
You get the feeling, reading various biographies and EH writing about her in letters, that there was a calculation and ambition in her decisions and behavior re dating and marriage.

Of course he was a megalomaniac, alcoholic and an abusive general ass***e. She decided that hey, "I will put up with that to further my career"

For that, yuck.

Except she stopped putting up with it. She was a real war correspondent, which was not exactly typical for women. More or less sneaking ashore at Normandy pretending to be a nurse. I'd never heard of her affair with General Gavin.

No, she knew about it all before the marriage. It was a career move for MG. She had a another divorce and committed suicide like EH
She was also part of the adultery as EH was then married to PP with 2 kids and I think she was PP friend prior.

Pre Marriage. Martha was no dummy but she sold herself short. Clearly she knew about EH's demons, yet she married him as a career move. She was also friends with that lesbo commie Eleanor Roosevelt.

She, for her part, wrote fiercely to her mother: ‘A man must be a very great genius to make up for being such a loathsome human being.’
When Hemingway finally came to let her out he explained that he had done it for her own safety, but she was furious. Later, she wrote, “I should have known at that moment what doom was.”

It didn’t, however, stop her from starting an affair. She didn’t love Hemingway, she claimed, and she wasn’t physically attracted to him, but she admired him and was grateful for his companionship and leadership amid a horrific war. Hemingway regarded himself — and was mostly regarded by others — as the foremost foreign journalist in Spain, and was able to procure supplies, including petrol, where no one else could.


Known for being a bully at times, Hemingway was capable of subjecting Gellhorn to torrents of abuse: she described one evening as “a really excellent show but the kind of show usually reserved for enemies.”

Hemingway had started work on a play called The Fifth Column, based largely on his experiences in Spain and including a not-entirely flattering portrait of Martha as Dorothy Bridges, the heroine, whose main feature was her legs and who had “men, affairs, abortions, ambitions.”

By the end of 1938, Hemingway was back in Key West, trying to adapt back into family life with Pauline, but it was evident to visitors that he was unhappy. His brother Leicester noted that he was drinking an average of fifteen Scotch and sodas each day. He eventually retreated to one of his favorite islands, Cuba, to write, and Gellhorn joined him in the early spring of 1939.

Gellhorn wore a diamond and sapphire ring she described as “snappy as hell.” Although she had some doubts about marriage (upsetting Hemingway, who wrote that she had given him a “good sound busted heart”) photos from this time show them both happy, windswept, and smiling.

On November 21, 1940 they were married in the dining room of the Union Pacific Railroad in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Several newspapers covered the wedding, with one reporter describing it as a union “of flint and steel,” though which one of them was which was never made clear.

https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/literary-musings/marriage-of-martha-gellhorn-ernest-hemingway/

there is a netflix movie regarding: simply entitled "hemingway and gellhorn". doubtlessly embellished, but gives a fairly sound report of the spanish civil war and their later life. haven't seen it in several years, but recall it as being worthwhile.

best regards,

tom

A lot of famous women were friends with Eleanor Roosevelt. She got her first ride in an airplane from her friend Amelia Earhart. (The legend that Earhart was engaged in intelligence gathering on Japanese held islands is likely just that--a legend. FDR did employ friends as amateur intelligence agents. But it's not very likely that Earhart was acting as a spy on her last flight.) As for Gellhorn's suicide, she was nearly 90 and dying of cancer at the time.