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...Anne Hutchinson, religious enthusiast who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 for feeling good (called Antinomianism by Puritan divines), was the object of a bill introduced in the Massachusetts State Legislature. Object: to revoke her banishment and allow her to "return" to ban-bound Boston, where she is the only woman ever honored by a statue...
...towns paraded past: Texhoma, Meade, Hutchinson, Kansas City. On the fourth day, at Moberly, Mo. (pop. 12,920), things were different. The townspeople flocked to the station with sandwiches and beer, cigarets and candy; the Moberly girls, in their summer dresses, brought their cars and took the marines for rides through the gentle hills, up & down the concrete highways that looked like the highways near home...
...pride in his ancestor, Sir Sitwell Sitwell, an 18th-Century baronet who once hunted an escaped Bengal tiger over the Yorkshire moors with a pack of hounds. (Sir Sit-well's ghost occasionally appeared at Reni-shaw, peering gloomily through the glass front door.) Another ancestor was Lord Hutchinson of Alexandria and Knock-lofty, whose father succeeded in making one of his nieces the full-salaried colonel of a crack regiment. He protested bitterly when the War Office reduced the old lady to half...
Everybody recognized the worn brown face beneath the worn black beret. As usual, there were a few discreet cheers. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery was paying a filial visit to his father's old college, Cambridge's famed Trinity. His father, Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, had made a great name at Trinity as an athlete; he had been a militant Christian who became an athletic Bishop; at 70, bald, snow-bearded and retired, he still walked his 18 miles a day. Standing before the Tudor Gothic dining hall on one side of Nevile's Court, the General pointed...
First he read a clipping from Eleanor Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. It was a story by dapper, opinionated William K. Hutchinson, chief of the Hearst-owned I.N.S. Washington bureau. His story's gist: 1) that "a group of influential White House advisers" was conspiring to kick General Marshall upstairs "to a glorified but powerless world command over Anglo-American forces"; 2) that the motive "is to use the Army's vast production program . . . as a political weapon in the 1944 Presidential campaign." As the President read he bore down jeeringly on the more purple key phrases...