Word: jeffersonism
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...professor has written five books, including "American Democracy from Jefferson to Jackson...
...splendid, gilded barge, equipped with a studio for his ten to twelve apprentices, shaded by a yellow-and-black linen awning. The villas that resulted won in later years the admiration of English Architects Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren and Lord Burlington, as well as American Thomas Jefferson, who used Palladio designs as prototypes for his own Monticello and his master plan for the University of Virginia...
...will cost two dollars to attend the luncheon at the Sheraton Hotel in Rochester, N.Y., on Jan. 3 at 12:15 p.m. The Milwaukee Club's luncheon will take place on Dec. 23 at noon at 706 North Jefferson...
Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, 74, is probably the only woman still living in the U.S. who can claim to have been described as "svelte" by Mrs. Jefferson Davis. Hers is a truly romantic as well as a wonderfully goofy story-the memoirs of a Southern belle who married a notorious radical. It is husband Upton Sinclair for whom the belle has now told all, and her revelations carry his strangely sentimental imprimatur ("My Southern belle remembers tenderly those dear dead days . . ."). The book, irresistible to students of U.S. life and manners, is the story of Mary's life with...
Hookless Future. "I was born in the midst of vast cotton plantations," Mary's story begins, and things "were about as they had been during the days of slavery." Ashton Hall-the Kimbrough place close to the Jefferson Davis house on the Gulf Coast near Biloxi-featured all the regulation black nannies and the beaux whose only weakness was the bottle. A gallant gentleman named Jerome Winston was Mary's fiance. Alas, there came the day when Daddy, old Judge Kimbrough, pronounced the terrible words: "Jerome Winston is not worthy of the love of my little daughter." Before...