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Stage and Radio have had sadly diverse upbringings under the wing of the University. Stage is the stunted child. Radio is maturing all the time into powerful, rangy manhood. This inconsistent nourishment of dramatic expression is not only unfortunate, it is inexplicable...
...Aragonese peasant whose wife claimed kinship to a tattered strain of impoverished Spanish nobility, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born in the bedraggled, hard-bitten village of Fuendetodos, near Saragossa, in 1746. He grew into barrel-chested manhood, fighting ruffians and bulls with equal recklessness and gusto. Brawling and wenching his way to Rome, he studied there the shimmering rococo canvases of Tiepolo and Francesco de Guardi, returned to Madrid to work his way up as court painter to Spain's dissolute Charles...
Although a friend of the Governor, he had not even a wild dream of a Senate seat, wept most of the night after the appointment. He called his wife long distance. She said: "My gosh!" Said Governor Carville: "He typically represents the young manhood of Nevada. This nation today is calling upon its young...
...Twain was dead too. Four months before, he sat near his daughter Jean's dead body, wrote: "Would I bring her back to life if I could do it? I would not. ... I have never wanted any released friend of mine restored to life since I reached manhood...
...less emotional understanding of the nature and function of trusts. Last week he made this appraisal in an exhaustive, intelligent, scrupulously just, lucidly written biography of John D. About half of Volume I describes his poor but honest boyhood in Tioga County, N. Y., his thrifty, God-fearing young manhood in Cleveland, Ohio. About half of Volume II describes his closing years of good works. But most of the biography's 1,400 pages is about Standard...