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...assist him in editing the Review, Chapman shrewdly imported Marian Evans from the country, installed her in his home as a boarder. She was not the first. Marian soon discovered that Chapman made a practice of renting room's to women who could distract him mentally while their board contributed to the upkeep of his publishing business. Marian had been preceded by the authoress of a learned novel on ancient Egypt who was known to her enemies as Miss Sennacherib. Co-boarding with Miss Sennacherib was Miss Tilley, who acted as the mistress of Chapman and the governess...
Whether or not Marian was a platonic boarder, Author Haight does not say. In any case, she remained for two years of weekly soirees, got to know nearly everybody worth knowing among Victorian advanced thinkers. Among them were Herbert Spencer, Carlyle, Harriet Martineau, Francis Newman...
John Chapman was one of them. He adapted himself to the change with the philosophic abandon of a publisher who sees himself on the verge of losing a valuable author. Besides, Chapman had another "boarder." This time it was Florence Nightingale's cousin, Barbara Leigh Smith -one of the "tabooed" Smiths, so called because the parents, being progressive thinkers, were in the habit of having children out of wedlock...
...East-Side saga obeyed every rule. Mama was widowed and warmhearted. One daughter, on the eve of her wedding, perished in a sweatshop fire. Another daughter married a gay blade who carried on with other women. The only son was killed making the world safe for democracy. The kindly boarder (Joseph Buloff) followed Mama around for three acts and 20 years, finally won her elderly hand as the curtain fell. For realism, there was yet another daughter, mean and ornery as they come. For atmosphere, there was an endless amount of Jewish cooking. For laughs, there was a loud...
...chunky President Kaufman Thuma Keller stayed away from most of the conferences in Detroit last week. He could not abide the taunts of U.A.W.'s keg-headed Richard Frankensteen, who continually brings up the story that back in the bad old non-union days, Chrysler planted a spying boarder in the Frankensteen home. But Mr. Keller's able, labor-wise Vice President Herman Weckler, negotiating with "Durable Dick" Frankensteen and his boss, U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas, actually seemed to be getting somewhere. Within sniffing distance was settlement, re-employment of 58,000 idle Chrysler workers and perhaps...