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...liberal Democrat! My husband ... is very modern in his attitude toward careers for women ... He reads the New York Post avidly, and considers its continuance as the city's only crusading liberal newspaper of such vital importance that he is willing to have his wife retain her maiden name professionally and to continue to devote the major portion of her time to its publication...
...after all, a failure. In tone, the stories range from Ring Lardner's deadpan barbershop talk in Haircut to the old-school nourishes of New Orleans' George W. Cable in Madame Delphine: "She was just passing 17-that beautiful year when the heart of the maiden still beats quickly with the surprise of her new dominion, while with gentle dignity her brow accepts the holy coronation of womanhood...
Abandoning themselves to the joy of raising Remo. the maiden aunts plan to make him an engineer, a millionaire, a deputy, a minister, and dream that he will rise "like a lighthouse ... to illumine the world." But Remo has no head for study and no heart for work. What he doesn't know about women, however, can be written on the head of one of his aunts' pins. After stripping the sisters of their savings, land and farm, Remo marries a beautiful American pressure-cooker heiress and goes to live with her. in New York. The blow...
Faster Freight. A new, high-speed Santa Fe train, designed for better competition with truckers in hauling fresh fruit from the West Coast, set a new record for California-to-Chicago freight trains on its maiden run last week. Train No. 62 hauled 18 refrigerated carloads of American Beauty plums to McCook, Ill. in 61½ hours, compared to the average truck time of about 96 hours...
...alive today: "St. George would arrive in Cappadocia accompanied, not by a horse, but by a secretariat. He would be armed, not by a lance, but by several flexible formulas . . . He would propose a conference with the dragon. He would then lend the dragon a lot of money. The maiden's release would be referred to Geneva or New York, the dragon reserving all rights meanwhile...