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Last week the U.S. Senate put away the Bricker amendment and its less muscular cousin, the George amendment. Not since Little Eva has there been quite such a deathbed scene...
...Grade-school children in Chicago were playing a new numbers game: I Win, a close cousin to rummy, which is supposed to teach them arithmetic. Invented by Gertrude Gebbie, an accountant who wanted to help "children who don't have the patience to learn by rote," / Win has the approval of the Chicago board of education, sells retail at 75? a deck. Half a million decks are already...
...some of her paintings to keep it going. But Marguerite Caetani is an old hand at backing forlorn literary causes. For ten years she ran France's distinguished quarterly Commerce, and her home in Paris, like the palace in Rome, was a gathering place for writers. Her distant cousin, T. S. Eliot, warned her not to start Botteghe, told her it was tough enough to back a high brow magazine in one language, let alone three...
...resources conservation program, made him and his party immensely popular, as did his brilliant diplomacy, sometimes a singlehanded operation. ("I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.") By 1908. "reactionary"' Democrats were getting the same abuse that Cousin Franklin's young men of a latter day were to heap on the Republicans. Roosevelt was furious that a "floppy souled creature" like Taft threatened to undo his plans for the party: hence his hopeless attempt to win the nomination again in 1912, his "Bull Moose" split with...
Blood Tie. In Edinburg, Texas, Pedro Martinez was excused from jury duty after he told the assistant district attorney why he would not be willing to vote for the death penalty: "Jose [the defendant] is my cousin...