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Jim Farley, ex-Democratic chairman, distributed bitter pills at a Wellesley College anniversary banquet. Because of the "frightful . . . pressure," reported Farley gravely, "I do not believe any woman is physically and emotionally strong enough to serve out a full presidential term."
The Saints. When, under Catherine the Great, Moscow was ridden by a frightful plague (1771) and a thousand people died each day, the Archbishop of Moscow forbade, for hygienic reasons, the kissing of icons; an outraged mob killed him. When in 1812 Napoleon marched on the city, the Governor General...
His health was better than last year (though his legs gave him some trouble), and his mind still seemed as cold a lancet as ever probed an infection. He wrote recently: "Parliament men . . . keep declaring that the British parliamentary system is one of the greatest blessings British political genius has...
In a barnlike recording studio in London, a trim, middle-aged actor in a fawn-colored Savile Row suit sat down last week before a microphone. Adjusting his horn-rimmed glasses, he spoke to a technician in the crisp Mayfair accent that is known to theatergoers the world over: "All...
Jimmy Murphy, 25, had just knocked Napoleon across the kitchen with a baseball bat. Jimmy, a single-minded lush, had a frightful temper. Sometimes, according to Author Natalie Anderson Scott, he was capable of "smiling humorously," but more often anger "twisted his handsome face" and corrupted his "sweet, childish mouth...