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...love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett,-and this is no offhand complimentary letter that I shall write . . . and there a graceful and natural end of the thing . . . In this addressing myself to you-your own self, and for the first time, my feeling rises altogether. I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart-and I love...
When this arrow, dipped in the hot ink of a young poet, transfixed the heart of dear Miss Barrett, one of the most celebrated love stories of the 19th Century began. Nor did it end with the end of the lovers' lives. The Browning story has gone on, as Elizabeth prophesied, "through love's eternity"-though it is not exactly the kind of eternity Elizabeth may have had in mind. It was current a few years ago in a hit play, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, and in a Hollywood movie in which Robert Browning and his wife...
...said one visitor, which were "like the pendent ears of a water spaniel, and poor little hands, so thin that when she welcomed you she gave you something like the foot of a young bird." Browning himself, with his big, bumped nose, was scarcely Apollo reincarnate. And Old Man Barrett, though rather like an ogre, was hardly as black as hell's chimney after all; Elizabeth called him "Sweet Puppy...
...James E. Barrett, Jr--Waltham; chairman, Union Committee; Sophomore Class Committee; chairman, Junior Class Committee...
...whole, done a good job. Boss of the Voice is Foy D. Kohler, 42, an Ohioan and a veteran foreign service career man with years of duty which have given him a patient smile and a prematurely wrinkled face. Responsible for Voice policy is able ex-Newspaperman Edward Barrett, who as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs heads the whole U.S. propaganda program...