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...letter did not mention Senator McCarthy's name but it was obviously an attack on his methods and philosophy and those of the State Department's Security Administrator, Scott McCleod. It was signed by Norman Armour, onetime Ambassador to Spain; Joseph C. Grew, pre-World War II Ambassador to Japan; William Phillips, ex-Ambassador to Italy; Robert Woods Bliss, former Ambassador to Argentina; and G. Rowland Shaw, former Assistant Secretary of State. (Eld er Statesmen Grew and Armour were recently asked by Secretary of State Dulles to make recommendations for the improvement of the Foreign Service.) "Recently...
...young girl, & no one durst say black was his eye; while I, for just doing the same thing, only wanting that ceremony, am made a Sunday's laughingstock, & abused like a pickpocket." The abuse came from the parents of a master mason's daughter named Jean Armour, with whom Burns "had got deeply in love ... of which proofs were every day arising more & more to view. I would gladly have covered my Inamorata from the darts of Calumny with the conjugal Shield...
...Jean's parents, while taking a dim view of a pregnant daughter, took an even dimmer one of the fledgling poet, and said no to a marriage. Fuming with hurt pride, Burns delivered a round, ranting curse on Mrs. Armour to a friend: "May all the Furies . . . await the old harridan . . . May Hell string the arm of Death to throw the fatal dart, and . . . rouse the infernal flames to welcome her approach!" Then he added cautiously: "For Heaven's sake, burn this letter," as if suspecting that within two years she would be his mother...
Burns made Jean Armour a mother again, and this time her parents were only too eager to insist on a match. In the spring of 1788 they were married, but they did not live happily ever after. For one thing, Burns had reservations about the earthiness of his Jean: "Mrs. Burns is getting stout again, & laid as lustily about her today at breakfast as a Reaper from the corn-ridge...
...Richard Armour, famed comic poet, whose light verse fills the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker weekly, has commented on the recent charges of Senator McCarthy in a letter to the CRIMSON. He Says...