Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Otis Chatfield-Taylor, 47, Chicago socialite, literary dilettante, brother of Wayne C. Taylor, onetime Under Secretary of Commerce; after an automobile accident; in Ossining, N.Y.
The Threat. The commissioners were not panic-stricken; they were measured and matter-of-fact. But the U.S. was under definite threat, they said. They saw no hope that the United Nations would develop "in time" the authority to prevent another war. The threat, they reported, could be divided into...
Ulysses S. Grant, a good general and a poor President, credited his sons with virtues they never had. He reportedly thought that Ulysses Jr. had a "marvelous business capacity; that Colonel Frederick Grant was fit to command armies; that Jesse was a mathematical genius." The less indulgent New York World...
Toothache. In Durango, Colo., Mrs. W. J. Wellman, an automobile accident victim, went home from the hospital, felt a pain in her hand a few days later, consulted the doctor, who fixed things by extracting one of her missing teeth from her thumb.
For those interested, the usual good poetry appears, this time by John Ashbery and Ora May Hulli; same with the criticism, by Kenneth Koch ad Robert Hunter. Now, with a well-balanced issue, there is no need to say nice things about these lost. Of course the fiction has its...