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...Coolidge, whose ancestors were New Englanders but were not closely related to the family now represented in the White House, is daughter of the late O. S. A. Sprague, wealthy Chicago wholesale grocer (Sprague. Warner & Co.), sister of Col. Albert A. Sprague, 1924 Democratic candidate for U. S. Senator from Illinois. Inhabitants of Pittsfield and environs tell anecdotes of her troublesome deafness and marvel that her interest in music is so intense, little knowing that an ear unsensitive to hurly-burly street sounds and flat conversational tones is the more sensitive to nuance in musical vibrations...
...Tiverton, the "real thing" personified, aids her sensitiveness to give her that sense of personal reality which is salvation. The flowering of Juliet is accompanied by intimate, memorable portraits: Angela, drifting through life in search of something upon which to "settle"; Leslie, reminiscent of "a whipped puppy and a grocer's assistant in his Sunday best"; Juliet's father who uses "men's words" and hates Miss Tiverton, who has never called. The anonymous author is presumably a charming sensitive lady with no nonsense about her. She understands neighborhood metaphysics. Rowdy...
...died in China. A year and a half later she married again-Harold McPherson, a California grocer, whom she divorced in 1920. By him she has a 12-year-old son, Rolf McPerson. Last week her other child, 15-year-old Roberta Semple, preached in her mother's absence at Angelus Temple...
There is a new saga to be sung in Nova Scotia-about Johnny Miles, the Welsh pugilist's son, who worked in the coal drifts at Cape Breton until his father saw he was a footracer. It will tell how Johnny was found a job aboveground, driving a grocer's wagon; was trained, conditioned, counseled and sent down to tell the officials of the great Boston Marathon that he, a lad of 18, had come to win their race, though never in his life had he run more than 15 miles on end. It will sing of Clarence...
Thrifty, the grocer was still tending store when, two hours later, a motorist entered to make purchases. Hospitable, the grocer engaged his customer in conversation. Confiding, the customer let fall that his name was Straight. Quick-witted, the grocer asked if he was Allen Straight. Yes, he was. . . . Mrs. Straight was dying in Colorado...