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...your football team," cried Virginia-born Lady Astor to University of Virginia students. "Politics is a dreary thing...
...Patrick Cardinal Hayes, with whom two days later he received that indefatigable cultivator of the great, Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, then went out to look at local churches. Between these duties at Inisfada, Mrs. Brady's estate, Cardinal Pacelli chatted, supped with his blue-eyed hostess, born Genevieve Garvan, now a papal Duchess and board chairman of the Girl Scouts of America. Also at Inisfada the Cardinal celebrated daily Mass in devout and generous Mrs. Brady's private chapel...
...poor patient Griselda is cruelly tried and her reaction to her grievances too spiritless to be pleasing even to the medieval ear. She swears obedience to the husband who has promised the death of her first born son and daughter...
...with her first novel (TIME, Jan. 6). Wife of a toll-bridge keeper in Bay St. Louis, Miss., mother of six children, author of many rejected short stories, Mrs. Jacobs learned of her good fortune on her 44th birthday and on her 22nd wedding anniversary. Born in Old Town, Me., she had previously written for local newspapers. After graduation from the University of Maine, she married a classmate and went South with him to make their home. The Old Ashburn Place was written at night and during occasional free hours, took four years to complete. Planning to use her windfall...
William Alfred Eddy has spent 19 of his 40 years abroad. Born at Saida (Sidon), Syria, he sailed to the U. S. to attend the College of Wooster (Ohio) and Princeton, sailed back to France with the A.E.F. to be wounded at Belleau Wood and receive the Distinguished Service Cross. With a Ph.D. from Princeton he went to Egypt in 1923, headed the English department of the American University at Cairo for five years before he was called to Dartmouth. While at Cairo he introduced basketball to Egyptian youngsters, wrote the first book of basketball rules in Arabic, started...