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Harold Stassen was the most effective public figure, the most "world-minded" of the U.S. delegates. He received the most mail (about 1,500 letters a day). Mindful of his Presidential chances, the Republican Party helped him answer it. Ailing Representative Charles Aubrey Eaton contributed the strongest anti-Russian feeling, and Dean Virginia Gildersleeve brought the best of intentions. Neither of these commodities was scarce at San Francisco. Representative Sol Bloom was also present...
...Poet James Thomson (The City of Dreadful Night) crept starving to the bed of a blind friend, who stretched out his hands and withdrew them covered with the blood of Thomson's fatal hemorrhage. Simeon Solomon died in a poorhouse; consumption killed Ernest Dowson (Cynara) at 33. Brilliant Aubrey Beardsley, whose delicate, sensual illustrations for Wilde's Salome became more famous than the play itself, died of tuberculosis, complicated by high living, at 25, leaving a curt, harrowing letter to a friend...
...Aubrey Beardsley...
Boyish-looking, 24-year-old Aubrey Holland was a medical aid man with the Fifth Army in Italy. During the bloody crossing of the Rapido River, while he was helping the wounded, he was badly hurt himself. The fighting rolled on and Holland lay unattended on the river bank with a shattered arm and leg. He lay there for four days. When medics finally got to him, his feet and one hand were frozen. Doctors amputated both his legs...
...bloc which had turned him down gave no sign of worry. The fact was that, however sound their reasons, they just didn't like Aubrey Williams or what he stood...