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Albert Richwick, bachelor and gentleman farmer, was strolling near his garden one day when a pack of hounds chased an exhausted fox into his hedge. Suddenly "there was no fox. But protruding from the hedge, on the ground, a pair of bare legs. They were kicking. The rest of the body, caught in the hedge and slashed by thorns, was trying to push through...It was a woman...
...Richwick-priggish, prudish bachelor that he is-perseveres. He lets it be known that she is the mentally retarded daughter of a sister in Scotland and engages a nurse for her who has specialized in backward children. Richwick, who narrates the story, and Mrs. Burnley, the nanny, settle down to their labor of love: turning a vixen into a girl...
...lifelong bachelor with neurotic fear of disease (during World War I he lived for a year and a half in a hospital to be sure of getting sanitary food), Kress seemed to have only one love, his business. In reality, he had two. He read a good deal about art, was collecting in a small way before World War I. Finally, about 1920, he met the Italian collector Count Contini-Bonacossi in Rome. Kress decided on the spot that he would some day have a collection as good as the count's. Soon he was the friend of Bernard...
...less hopeful is the appended "comment" by Robert M. Hutchins, former president of the University of Chicago and now head of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. As an example of "crude pressure and bribery," Hutchins cites Michigan State's "four-year course leading to a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in mobile homes." Says Hutchins: "As Mobile Homes come in. Civilization goes...
Married. Henry Martin ("Scoop") Jackson, 49, Democratic junior Senator from Washington long rated Capitol Hill's most eligible bachelor; and Helen Eugenia Hardin, 28, fetching blonde former receptionist for New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson; he for the first time, she for the second; in Albuquerque...