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...overall news was the defeat of Republican isolationism and the re-elections of Republicans with non-isolationist or liberal record. In New York, to the nation's delight, down went rabid anti-Roosevelt isolationist Hamilton Fish, after 24 years in Congress. His successor: liberal Augustus W. Bennet, 47, Newburgh lawyer. Another surprise was the defeat of the Chicago Tribune's alter ego, isolationist stalwart Stephen A. Day. Against Day and the odds, intelligent, serious Emily Taft Douglas, wife of a Chicago economics professor (now in the Marines) won her first try at big-time politics. Rednecked Marine Colonel...
...Colonel William Claire Menninger, famed psychiatrist (not to be confused with his brother, Karl Augustus Menninger, still holding the fort at the brothers' Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans.), warned Army doctors never to lose patience with soldiers with imaginary ills-most of them need psychiatric care. An Army doctor who says "The bastard isn't going to get away with that" may be merely venting his own resentment at the deprivations he suffers from being in military service. Doctors, Colonel Menninger pointed out, make more financial sacrifice on joining up than any other group...
...biggest, most expensive, most marmoreal mansion of all was that of hot-tempered Major Augustus Parkington (Walter Pidgeon). The Major built it as an anniversary present for his wife Susie (Greer Garson), the pretty little boardinghouse keeper from Leaping Rock, Nevada, and to open it planned the most elaborate ball of the season. But the Major was a crude fellow in the eyes of his neighbors and, when the night of the ball arrived, the Four Hundred cut him dead. Furious at the insult to his wife, the Major proceeded to ruin the remiss millionaires, one by one. When Susie...
...discuss the war. He merely worked on in his Banyuls house, and when plaster became scarce he sent his son to ask the neighborhood dentists for more. In leisure moments, the old man listened to music. Few modern artists have evoked such critical acclaim. Wrote Britain's Augustus John: "We can never tire of a style so pure . . . have enough of a vision so consummate. ..." Highest praise of all came from Auguste Rodin, who said of Maillol's little Leda: "In all modern sculpture I do not know of a piece which is as absolutely beautiful, as absolutely...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh arrived in Manhattan, alone but not unremarked by news photographers (see cut), on his way from the South Pacific to his recently rented house in Connecticut (TIME, Sept. 18), still looking like the shy Lone Eagle who, 17 years ago, was all the world's hero...