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...American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Shriners, Knights Templar, Elks, Eagles, Kiwanis, the Capital Card Club, etc.). Loves riding and campaigning on horseback; in parades, he exchanges his conservative suits for a white, gaily embroidered cowboy costume and ten-gallon hat. Married to Mabel Hill, whom he met in his college days; two daughters, both married, five grandchildren. His wife, who dislikes cocktail parties, is matronly, charming, and renowned throughout the state for her angel cake...
Always Interested. In Italy, Muriel had her first son, Paul Jr. In Italy, too, she fell under the spell of the gilded intellectual and artistic set of pre-1914 Europe-Art Critic Bernard Berenson. Violinist Albert Spalding, Actress Eleonora Duse, Dilettante Mabel Dodge, and John Reed, who later glorified the Russian Revolution in Ten Days That Shook the World, and now lies buried beneath the Kremlin wall...
...Drapers moved to London, where Victorianism was deeply buried under the lush Edwardian bloom. Muriel set about creating a salon to rival Mabel Dodge's villa in Florence. To the Draper home at 19A Edith Grove came such notables as Painter John Singer Sargent, Writers Norman Douglas, Gertrude Stein and Henry James. The great preoccupation at 19A Edith Grove was music, some of it provided by husband Paul, more of it by Cellist Pablo Casals. Pianist Artur Rubinstein or Singer Feodor Chaliapin. Beginning late in the evening, the music often lasted till morning, when everyone would adjourn...
...more than a fleeting moment, he watches boxing on TV ("That's what I want to do when I grow up"), reads, plays the harmonica and guitar, helps a little with the household chores. Doctors offer little hope for further improvement. But, says his confident mother, Mrs. Mabel K. Werrett: "Love can do a lot, you know...
...meat packer who retired from business in Boone, Iowa to leisure in a big house in Denver at the age of 36-did not oppose this female whimsy. But he was firm on the subject of Sunday afternoon tours in his Packard twin-six. "Papa," Mamie's sister Mabel recalls, "was dreadful. We all had to go." As a result, one afternoon in 1915, when the family was wintering in San Antonio, Mamie was bundled off on a drive to Fort Sam Houston. Then & there, she met her husband...