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...PRIVATE ADVENTURE OF CAPTAIN SHAW- Edith Shay and Katharine Smith-Houghton Mifftin...
...West mansion in Boston, he built a soundproof subterranean sleeping chamber, hired a mesmerist to put him to sleep. On the night of May 30, 1887 he was particularly upset. Strikes in the building trades had stopped work on his new house, delaying his marriage to lovely Edith Bartlett. At 9 p.m. Julian went to his quiet room and was put into a trance calculated to last until 9 the next morning...
...woke up 113 years, three months and eleven days later. At his bedside were a kindly, long-winded physician named Dr. Leete, and his lovely daughter Edith. At first Julian thought a cruel and elaborate practical joke was being played on him. But when Dr. Leete led him to the roof and showed him a transformed Boston, with miles of broad streets, tree-filled squares and majestic architecture unknown in 1887, he turned giddy...
Then the conference proceeded to elect to the Party's powerful executive committee: Dr. Edith Summerskill, Labor's ablest, fightingest woman M.P.; leftish M.P. Aneurin Bevan, Churchill's bitterest Labor critic in Parliament...
Wendell Willkie had come back to Rushville, Ind. for the last time. Here he had courted Edith Wilk and married her; and when he made his money he bought farms nearby. In the past he had come back to this small town (pop. 5,709) from the great cities which were his arena, like a boxer coming back to his corner between rounds. Last week Rushville was quieter than usual; schools were closed; flags hung at half-mast and big, crepe-bordered photographs of Wendell Willkie hung in store windows. All morning people went into the grey stone Wyatt Memorial...