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...Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, twice Governor of Texas (1925-27, 1933-35), now at 65 a fond grandmother. Ma Ferguson left the management of her campaign to her husband, 69-year-old Jim Ferguson, Governor of Texas from 1915 until he was impeached...
...cauliflower-not in the interest of dietary flagellation, but in a quest for cheap foods. He has passed many a night hour lying on the ground, looking at the stars. Purpose: to check a complex theory about the relation of the heavenly bodies to weather cycles. He is equally fond of integral calculus and boomerang throwing. Both have their uses: calculus helps in working out agricultural formulas; boomerangs, tennis, badminton, horseback riding give him exercise and open air. thus combating a faint family strain of tuberculosis which has not touched robust Henry Wallace...
...part Dutch and a lot of just plain cowboy is the music of the Transvaal. Sarie Marais, the song of a Boer girl waiting in the mealies (maize fields) by the old thorn tree for her lover to come back from fighting the English, should fall pleasantly on ears fond of U. S. Westerns and Spanish-American war ballads. Stellenbosch Boys is a rousing bumpkin march. The set's three discs provide other good discoveries, among them Brandy, Leave Me Alone...
...Berkshires, winters in Arizona, the rest of his time mostly in Manhattan. His writing style is marked by sentences without verbs and other syntactical vagaries. He dislikes bores, boobs, poseurs and stuffed shirts, has been known to walk out on parties when the talk irritated him. He is extremely fond of ice cream, fascinated by psychoanalysis, bothered by insomnia, the lack of parking space in Manhattan and the idea of death...
...somehow something was missing. Perhaps it was the failure of Cinemactress Davis to dramatize her difficult subdued role by much more than occasional popping of eyes and acid drawing down of her lips. Perhaps it was the ambiguous character of the Duke, who was never clearly hero, cruel husband, fond lover or murderer. Perhaps it was just the old difficulty of transferring a novel to film, the necessity (recognized as unfortunate by the producers themselves) of telling the story backwards. None of these faults was fatal in itself, but all contributed to the film's serious defect. Though...