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...voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. This Biblical quotation might last week have served as an epitaph for the famed White House Spokesman, born 1924, died 1927. He was brought into being by Washington correspondents, who, forbidden to quote directly what President Coolidge said at bi-weekly White House conferences, invented the Spokesman as their authority...
...Epitaph...
Sirs: You state in TIME, March 7, that John A. Brashear, former distinguished astronomer of Pittsburgh was unknown to you.† We who knew him feel that you missed much. When his wife preceded him in death he wrote this timely epitaph: "Too often we've studied the stars together, to have any fear of the night." I've wondered whether anything was so poetically and appropriately written of him. when he went away from his beloved Pittsburgh-"into the night." MRS. JAMES A. HUSTON...
When F. V. Morley, brother of thunderer upon the left Christopher Morley, set sail with two friends down the Thames? in their converted ship's lifeboat Wife of Bath he naturally found many such bits of rare Anglicana as the Martyr's epitaph above. Young Morley, like his columnist-novelist brother, is one of those for whom any river will wimple with apt allusion. Half the poets of England creep into Mr. Morley's book, a pat line or stanza from each. And he can himself do such sure telling bits as: "The first lock, by Inglesham Round House, holds...
...epitaph was last week discovered at Wetumpka...