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...Token of Gratitude. The speculation was focused on the demise of Eastbourne's eccentric old (81) Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell. The cause, according to a death certificate duly filed by her physician, was "cerebral thrombosis," i.e., a stroke. In three decades of practice at Eastbourne, the physician, kindly, pudgy Dr. John Bodkin Adams, had eased the end for many an octogenarian patient, and Mrs. Morrell's timely passing caused scarcely a ripple at the bridge tables. The old lady was cremated. Her son gave Dr. Adams her old Rolls-Royce and a valuable chest of family silver...
...nine Democratic women now in the House of Representatives gathered to enjoy hat chats and conversation about legislation. The exuberant lawmakers (left to right): Missouri's Leaner Sullivan, Michigan's Martha Griffiths, Idaho's Grade Pfost, Pennsylvania's Freshman Kathryn Granahan, Oregon's Edith Green, Georgia's Iris Blitch...
Johnson and Sam Rayburn have declined to serve on the "20-man" Democratic Advisory Committee and the eight persons who already have accepted posts include only three legislators, Senators Humphrey and Kefauver and Congresswoman Edith Green of Oregon. Consequently, Paul Butler's hope that powerful members of Congress would join seems to have been overly optimistic, if not naive, for in intent and organization the group was both an insult and a threat to Johnson, Rayburn...
Among the other principals, the most engaging are Edith Iselin, as Ophelia, and Richard Smithies, as Polonius. Miss Iselin plays Ophelia with a youthful lightness that is often quite charming in its novelty. If we don't usually think of Ophelia as a young girl, Miss Iselin shows that she can be. As for Smithies, he gives what is probably his best performance to date. His Polonius is restrained but generally pleasant. Due in large part to their work and that of Marc Brugnoni, in the role of the first grave-digger, the comicscenes are perhaps the most effective part...
...poetry of Robinson Jeffers and Edith Sitwell represents the heresy that Christianity's power has been gained by an appeal through the Crucifixion to "man's hidden lust for blood," the Reverend Amos N. Wilder, Hollis Professor of Divinity, said at his fourth William Belden Noble ecture ast night...