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Came the turn of Ohio's Senator Har old H. Burton. "If we restrain industry and finance, then you are willing to work on holding down the wages?" The Lewis jowls quivered and broke into a sly grin. "Will you telephone me?" Senator Burton retreated in haste...
ELISABET NEY-Jon Fortune and Jean Burton-Knopf...
Eccentrics, if handled with tenderness and humor, make glorious copy for a biographer. They are encumbered with outsize versions of human desires and disillusionments. One of the best living purveyors of eccentrics is Jean Burton of Berkeley, Calif. She proved it in her biography of her bristling collateral ancestor Richard and his devoted wife (Sir Richard Burton's Wife-TIME, June 23, 1941), proves it again (with Texan Jan Fortune) in a study of Elisabet...
...ried to her by a friendly preacher. Almost immediately they were separated, for en try into bristling Fort Pitt was not for everyone. Inside the fort, Salathiel met the commandant Captain Ecuyer, became his valet and bodyguard. From the Cap tain he learned discipline, borrowed such books as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richard son's Clarissa Harlowe...
Three of the sponsors-Senators Hill, Hatch and Ball-have been stanch supporters of Administration foreign policy. For Senator Burton, who often voted with the Republican Isolationist bloc before Pearl Harbor, the resolution showed a courageous change of mind. The sponsors hoped to win over other onetime Isolationists...