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...FOOTNOTE TO FOLLY-Mary Heaton Vorse-Farrar & Rinehart...
...wives and mothers of her day have seen so much of the world as Mary Heaton Vorse. Few men or women have a better right than she to consider her reminiscences of an active life a footnote to the history of her time. A Footnote to History was to have been the title of her book, but after thinking about history and what it had failed to teach her generation, Author Vorse changed the name to A Footnote to Folly...
...been that kind, Mary Heaton might have grown up to be a New England bluestocking. Reared in the academic society of Amherst, Mass., where Henry James went visiting his young cousins and Emily Dickinson was one of the town characters, she found the life pleasantly stimulating, graduated naturally into studying art in Paris. Marriage to Albert White Vorse, a writer with a hobby of arctic exploration, further broadened her horizon. In a winter spent in Italy she saw her first big strike (Venetian gondoliers). It impressed her but hardly got under her skin. Back...
...succeed him Governor Lehman appointed Louis Heaton Pink, who has been directing the Insurance Department emergency mortgage rehabilitation bureau. A Brooklyn lawyer with a conspicuous record of civic service, Mr. Pink is a specialist in slum-clearance and low-cost housing, once served on the State Housing Board, now sits on New York City's Municipal Housing Authority...
...spirit of cooperation with our President and believe this spirit emanates from the whole people." Until last week that was the only political pronouncement the grey-eyed, gracious widow of Calvin Coolidge had made since his death. Last week before 1,500 applauding Massachusetts Republicans she appeared at Heaton Hall in swank Stockbridge to eulogize and hearten her State's Republican candidates, to predict for them a sweeping victory in next month's elections...