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Although Robert Lincoln lent the vast pile of papers to Nicolay and Hay, who had them for 27 years, he refused to make the collection public. According to legend, he was afraid that Indiana's late Senator Albert Beveridge would use some item to write something unfavorable about the Lincoln family...
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Ballet Suite (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Tchaikovsky's romantic overture lent itself to Tin Pan Alley thievery; this does not. Prokofiev makes Miss Capulet and Mr. Montague's troubles far more dissonant and disturbing. Performance: excellent...
Lady Iris Mountbatten, 27, pretty great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, cousin to George VI and Admiral Viscount Mountbatten, was back to shirtsleeves. Since arriving in the U.S. last October, her blonde ladyship has lent her name to a line of Indian textiles, to a dancing school, to a chewing-gum ad ("[Gum] is the height of good taste"). Now, she announced, she had a job, as plain Miss Mountbatten, in the Manhattan publicity offices of Columbia Pictures Corp., and liked the U.S. so much that she had decided to stay...
Like many a housewife who had sweated over a fancy recipe for the contest, the Edmonton Journal was put out: "Just why steak should be a typical Alberta food is not explained. . . . Grilled prairie chicken or buffalo stew . . . would have lent itself to seductive advertising." But Dan Campbell, the Social Crediters' pressagent, liked it fine. He got ready to beguile tourists with the slogan: "Alberta is the only place in the world where you can get a thousand-dollar steak for one dollar...
...British friend lent him Count Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You. The Russian Christian's doctrine of nonviolent resistance to unjust rule gripped the Hindu lawyer's mind. "Young birds," wrote Tolstoy, ". . . know very well when there is no longer room for them in the eggs. ... A man who has outgrown the State can no more be coerced into submission to its laws than can the fledgling be made to re-enter its shell...