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...pages, the whole Culbertson bridge career absorbs scarcely 100. Culbertson built up the game and himself as its expert to monstrous proportions, tired of it at last. A vacation, reading and thinking alone in Paris, made it all the more clear that Ely the "Philosopher," the "Epicurean," the "Idealist," must dethrone the "Family Man," the "Business Manager," the "Celebrity," the "Child." His story ends on the eve of an amicable divorce. An Appendix on the Mass Mind contains the most crackpot writing, the most valuable observations, in the book...
...zaro Cárdenas, when he chooses to play the dictator, can pull the country out of a crisis, but he is an idealist and his ideal is the Constitution. The Constitution says that the President may not succeed himself, and so Cárdenas will not run. He will not even endorse a candidate. "The people must choose," says...
...their own unions. In the next 12 months there were 1,142. The rush was on. In the rush, A. F. of L. brother fought C. I. O. brother. To rule between hard-boiled employers and hard-boiled union chiefs, NLRB sent many a radical young theorist, many an idealist who saw everything in black (employers) & white (workers). No Abraham Lincoln was on hand to design a just and tolerant reconstruction. The carpetbaggers swarmed in, and the night riders. NLRB ruled with a high hand and little regard for feelings. Soon businessmen big & little who agreed on nothing else agreed...
...London barrister, an idealist, but no businessman, pink-faced Tom Hughes set the younger sons to laying out cricket fields, tennis courts, organizing a Rugby football team, dramatic societies, a cornet band. In the Tennessee mountains old English homes sprang up, a "Tabard Inn," a church, a library which included a practically complete set of Hughes first editions, a rare Dickens item, pamphlets by the younger Pitt, the entire series of Illustrator Kate Greenaway. Tom Hughes's mother moved there, lived out her life in "Uffington House." But Tom Hughes's wife thought the whole thing was silly...
...shooting? Those are questions of extraordinary vitality in a world which seems to contain no ideals worth shooting or dying for. Maxwell Anderson apparently believes there still are a few left. To prove it he has written a play called "Key Largo" which tells the saga of a young idealist who broke with his faith to live,--and returned...