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...While Australia's crack Breast-Stroker John Davies clipped the Olympic record in the 200-meter event, the University of Iowa's Bowen Stassforth bobbed in a close second to pick up another five points...
...time to time, William McCormick Blair Jr., a Stevenson assistant, came out of his parents' house to survey the scene uneasily. He decided to open up the garden between the Blair house and the four-story brick home of his 93-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Louise de Koven Bowen. She wouldn't be disturbed; she was up at the family house near Waukegan. In the garden the Blair butler, Herman, set up a makeshift bar and plugged in a portable radio for the reporters...
Just after midnight of the third day, the vigil on Astor Street ended. The convention had spoken, and the nominee strode before the microphones on grandmother Bowen's veranda. His first words were for the reporters and photographers: "First let me say how much I regret the inconvenience that all of you newsmen have suffered." Then he turned to the subject of the hour: "... I have never been more conscious of the appalling responsibilities of the office. I did not seek it. I did not want it. I am, however, persuaded that to shirk it, to evade, to decline...
...University of Iowa senior Bowen Stass-forth, who clipped more than three seconds off the Olympic 200-meter breaststroke mark to finish...
...inadvertently, the funniest of Author Calisher's impersonations. In Point of Departure, a double soliloquy conducted by the two members of a love affair, the interminable sentences curl so concentrically and wearily that they come to sound like a playback on a run-down phonograph. The Bowenism is a sight more readable. Letitia, Emeritus, the story of a "backward" girl whose seduction by a prurient old teacher topples a domino-row of calamities, is managed with the firm Bowen wrist and the sure fingering of details. Yet, somehow, though Author Calisher has fingered her characters, she has not felt...