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...independence streak came from her mother. Harrington, also a deer hunter and flayer, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin magna cum laude with dual degrees in education and accounting. She taught high school business and authored sample problems for McGraw-Hill textbooks on the side. When Watkins was 14, her parents divorced. While they weren't the first Tomball couple to split up, it was a move radical enough that their church had refused communion to another divorce. But Harrington was hardly fazed. "I am going up there and kneeling, and I dare them not to give...
...Amadeo A. Bertini of General Sessions Court, successor to deposed Judge Francis Xavier Mancuso (TIME, Aug. 25). One Sunday early this month Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, crusading civic leader, was advised by his doctor not to preach his scheduled sermon. He asked Norman Thomas, Socialist Congressional candidate and scandal-flayer, to speak for him. After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer. He rose up and castigated Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's regime in these terms: "I charge the men of large affairs in New York with lack...
Ringside Comment. Soon it appeared that British Public opinion was indeed breaking party lines, surging to support Philip Snowden. "His robust patriotism pleases us as much as it surprises us," cried the conservative Morning Post, normally a ruthless flayer of all Laboriteism. "We are delighted that there is no nonsense about internationalism in the line that he has taken, and that he stands firmly upon the British interest...
Thus the Nominee came to Montana, home state of U. S. Senator Thomas. J. Walsh, arch-flayer of things oily and scandalous. He lost one of the brown derbies, a gift to Mrs. George Rathburn of Billings. But he found inspiration from two sources. The first was an early-morning remark of Daughter Emily...
Engaged. Sinclair Lewis, flayer of babbitts, Baptists and Methodists, to Dorothy Thompson, daughter of a Methodist preacher, Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post. They plan to marry in London in the middle of May, to honeymoon in an automobile. Novelist Lewis was recently divorced from his first wife. Miss Thompson divorced her first husband last summer...