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...Civil Wrongs." In 54-year-old Bachelor Russell, the Southern Democrats have an able, experienced, respected candidate. One of 13 children of a Georgia judge, he was elected to the state general assembly on his 23rd birthday, two years after he had graduated from the University of Georgia law school. He served in the assembly ten years, became its presiding officer. Inaugurated as governor in Depression-strafed 1931 (he was 33, the youngest governor in Georgia history), he slashed expenditures 32%, cut the number of state departments from 102 to 18. Two years later he went to the Senate...
...order to permit undergraduates in the College and Radcliffe to explore their interests in the field of education, the faculty ruled that they could count inward their bachelor degrees three half-courses offered by the faculty of education...
...bachelor and a social recluse, Lowry lives 14 miles outside Manchester, makes solitary pilgrimages to town every day by bus. He rambles, waiting for a scene to catch his eye, then takes a bus back home in time for tea. After tea, he starts to paint. Says Lowry in 35-year retrospect: "My whole happiness and unhappiness were that my view was like nobody else's. Had it been like, I should not have been lonely; but had I not been lonely, I should not have seen what...
What, or who, killed Cousin Ambrose at that sinister villa in Florence? Was it a "hereditary" brain tumor? Or was it Rachel, his half-Italian, half-English bride? Ambrose, a confirmed bachelor and English country gentleman, had gone to Florence for his health, wound up as a bubbling, then a fearful, husband. To Philip, his heir in Cornwall, it all seemed plain as day: Rachel and her sinister adviser Rainaldi had murdered Cousin Ambrose. Then Rachel came to Cornwall on a visit and, in no time, her cute tricks had Philip dancing attendance like a puppet. But when Philip began...
Robinson was happy at Harvard, if a bit of a social duffer. Women terrified him (he was to remain a bachelor all his life), and he felt that dancing lowered a man's "natural dignity." Painfully shy, he preferred to "smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold...