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Editor William Allen White is no admirer of Ohio's pink-cheeked Governor John W. Bricker ("An honest Harding. Thumbs down!"). Individualist White has never cared for teeming mobs. Now Editor White put both dislikes together. Plump Governor Bricker had finally plumped for internationalism (TIME, July 5). Veteran Internationalist White eyed the swelling crowd of internationalists, was suddenly seized with ochlophobia. In his famed Emporia, Kans. Gazette, Editor White fumed his way through a maze of metaphors toward the nearest exit...
...planes were winning Schneider Trophies (they won four) did England's financiers realize his full value. Not even after his eye-opening visit to Germany in 1935 and his meeting with the brilliant Willy Messerschmitt would the British Government lend him its ear. It was an "eccentric" individualist, Lady Houston, who finally put ?100,000 behind Mitchell's fantastic notion that England desperately needed a plane "faster than anything on earth, tougher than any other fighter, and able to turn on a sixpence...
...crowded three-room apartment in Queens, surrounded by a concert grand piano, a wife, two noisily playful children and a massive library. There he composes, teaches a number of piano pupils, practices the works he plays as organist of Manhattan's St. Malachy's Church. An individualist, Creston is not a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, believes in doing business with U.S. conductors and symphony orchestras himself. That business, during the past six months, brought him just $700 in performance royalties...
Henry Taylor is a successful business man (pulp and paper), a newspaperman (correspondent in North Africa), an author (Time Runs Out; TIME, May 11, 1942), an individualist, the offspring of Ohio pioneers, and an ardent disliker of much in contemporary U.S. life. In his autobiographical Men in Motion these qualities are abundantly manifest. An uneven, unprofessional book, packed with good stories (though his fellow correspondents dispute their novelty) and with vehement personal opinions, it is well worth reading for its picture of the mood of the people from whom Taylor and many another American springs...
...Sodality is proudest of the memory of one Pierian but for whom its 135 year tradition would not exist. He was an individualist named Henry Gassett of the class of 1834, and he played the flute. When, in 1832, complaints about the Sodality's night music led to an official request for its disbandment, Henry Gassett refused to resign. He held meetings with himself in the chair, paid himself dues regularly, played his flute in solitude. Finally he persuaded another flautist to join in duets. Gradually they elected other members. The Sodality played...