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...most readers, there is likely to be no question as to which has made the happier choice of subject. In Poems of People Edgar Lee Masters lapsed into stock poetic attitudes in writing of Washington at Fraunces' Tavern, Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Boone, De Soto. Only in Andrew Jackson does he carry out the promise of his title, calling...
Political songs and torchlight parades raged throughout the 19th Century. Peak came with the Log Cabin-Hard Cider campaign (1840) conducted by the Whigs in behalf of General William H. Harrison, hero of Tippecanoe, and his running-mate, John Tyler. Opponent was Democrat Martin Van Buren of New York, who prompted the Whigs to sing...
...delegates instead of by a mere majority, he started something over which Democrats have been wrangling for 104 years. Romulus Saunders was simply doing a job for Boss Andrew Jackson, who thereby made sure that John Caldwell Calhoun did not get the Vice-Presidential nomination away from Martin Van Buren. The first beneficiary of the two-thirds rule became its first victim. In the 1844 convention Van Buren got a majority vote for the Presidential nomination on the first ballot, could not raise it to two-thirds. Tired delegates compromised on Dark Horse James K. Polk. At Baltimore...
Lotta Van Buren's capable players include a medieval-looking brother and sister, but otherwise the group lacks the main characteristic of old instrumentalists -family solidarity. Bearded, bad-tempered, 77-year-old Arnold Dolmetsch of England, a famed researcher and maker of fine instruments, plays, somewhat badly, in ensemble with his wife, his two daughters, his two sons, his in-laws. Better known for their records (Victor) than for concerts are Ben Stad, Dutch-born Philadelphian who began as a violinist, and his American Society of the Ancient Instruments. This is also a family affair, composed of Mrs. Stad...
...talkative, Wisconsin-born musician in her late 40'$, Lotta Van Buren is the ablest authority on old instruments in the U. S. She studied piano with Harold Bauer, turned to lecturing in schools and colleges, accompanying herself on portable spinets and virginals. Seven years ago Yale University gave her her first big job -restoration of its fine Steinert collection of 50 antique instruments. Since then she has done similar work for Barnard College, the Beethoven Association, Cooper Union, many a private owner and John D. Rockefeller's picture-postcard Williamsburg, Va. Miss Van Buren has a notable collection...