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...Adamses, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln. The other five are equally familiar: Franklin, Hamilton, Henry, Webster, Clay. It was not until 1930, after running five times, that James Monroe slipped in. But there are 16 authors, five preachers and theologians, five educators. There are seven women, of whom Harriet Beecher Stowe is the only household name. Only businessman is George Peabody, who entered under the colors of a philanthropist. The Electors include few businessmen...
...sentimental classic up-to-date usually opens the door tor a display of easy superiority over antique quaintness. The distinction of E. E. Cummmgs' ballet based on Uncle Tom's Cabin is that the poet has accepted completely the elemental seriousness and flowery melodrama of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. Ingeniously impressed into four episodes, the first ending with Eliza's escape as she starts across the ice, the last with Tom's magnificent entry into Heaven, the ballet gives a free play to E. E. Cummings' intricate imagination, does not suggest...
Divorced. Dr. Richard Horace Hoffmann. Manhattan neurologist; by Janet Beecher, cinemactress (The President Vanishes, The Mighty Barnum); in Los Angeles. Separated from her husband for ten years, Miss Beecher told the judge she delayed the divorce so that her son, now 14, would "be old enough to know what was happening and also to indicate preference, if he cared, as to which parent he wished to remain with." Son Richard was awarded to his mother with the option of summering with his father...
...first half of the 19th Century, Latin School set a steady stream of New Englanders on the road to fame. Among them: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles William Eliot, Senator Charles Graham Sumner, orators like Wendell Phillips and Edward Everett, divines like Edward Everett Hale, Henry Ward Beecher, Phillips Brooks...
...James Beecher (1828-86), a sailor and Civil War soldier, became a minister in Owego, N. Y. He preached in the forests of Ulster County, N. Y., in the slums of Brooklyn, had a mental breakdown. One night he quietly went to his room, placed the muzzle of his gun in his mouth, shot himself...