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...statue was brought to the U. S. by Edith Lutyens, niece of famed English Royal Academician Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens. As Miss Lutyens was on the point of leaving London Sculptor Epstein impulsively put it in her care. It was not even wrapped. Before she got to the boat tram air-raid alarms sounded. "The blitz was quite strong and the guns were cracking off and shrapnel was whizzing about," said Miss Lutyens, describing her flight later. "I was absolutely terrified that it would be hit or have a hand or its head knocked...
Among the Congressmen around the horseshoe were three Republican isolationists: Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell, Mass., 59, fluttery, saccharine, gushing, with orchids and iron-grey curls; Hamilton Fish of Garrison, N. Y., 52, rangy, headline-hungry, with a brazen voice and a longtime suspicion of England; George Holden Tinkham of Boston, Mass., 70, bald, potbellied, with jowl-whiskers like a Russian droshky driver. Mr. Fish, veteran of many a skirmish with old Mr. Hull, and knowing that the Secretary's innocent, suffering face masks a hot-pincers talent of repartee, gave up the witness swiftly, but prodded furious...
Presumably this annoying character enjoys Playwright Shaw's sympathy, but the audience's is more apt to go to Actress Edith Atwater, who, as the WPA's lady, is one of the most desirable objects of the New Deal...
...week. The assorted nationalities sang to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wore, as usual, a hair ribbon; to Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines; to Orlando F. Weber, onetime head of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.; to those sterling spinsters of Manhattan and Newport, R. I., the Misses Maude and Edith Wetmore; to yards of silk and satin; to hothouses of orchids, gardenias and camellias; to bushels of diamonds, emeralds and pearls. They also sang to a few hundred plebeian music lovers roosting in the precipitous galleries who had stood in line, some of them for 15 hours, for their...
...rest performed such stunts as delivering children in London and converting Wyoming Indians to the Catholic faith. Six Edith Cavells and two sawbones were reported...