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...sabotaged the whole defense program. Cried New York's Representative Taber: "If a Republican had delivered such a ruling he would have been called a 'fifth columnist' by the gentleman in the White House." Snorted Pundit Walter Lippmann: "To roast pigs we must burn down a barn; to strengthen the Wagner Act we must weaken the National Defense...
Thomas spends his summers on Quaker Hill, his winters at Hampshire House. He devotes a lot of time to athletics, likes to ski, ride, swim and dance. On Saturday nights he holds square dances at his recreation barn, with music provided by his own four-piece orchestra. In summer his chief pastime is softball, which he plays eagerly if not too well. Famed among the sandlot intellectuals of New York and Connecticut is his softball team, Nine Old Men, which usually includes a raft of celebrities. He likes to dress up in funny rube costumes...
...tousled-haired, horticulturist Governor, George D. Aiken, proposed to his opponent for Republican Senatorial nomination that they jointly forswear roadside political advertising. His reason: "A wild clematis is far more attractive to our guests than either your face or mine on the side of a tree or barn...
Most of Artist Despujols' pupils are Fontainebleau alumni. Instead of a palace for their studio, they have a roomy, north-lighted barn which last year was Gull Hill School's stable, next year will be its gymnasium. Instead of Paris they have Provincetown. Artist Despujols looks at Cape Cod's scrub pines, sand dunes and squat frame houses with a cheerful eye. Says he: "It is not the Isle de France but it is equally paintable...
...kinds of bric-a-brac on his barnstorming. He ships his finds back to "Belleigh Acres," his estate on the edge of Hollywood, to which it is said he adds a room every time he makes a picture. The estate includes a ten-room doghouse, an impressive community barn, the inevitable swimming pool. Horton never uses the pool...