Word: mansfield
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Once Professor Harper wrote of an author (Katherine Mansfield) whom he admired: "There are no perfect men or women, but now and then comes one who, feeling most joyously 'the loveliness of the world' and most poignantly 'the corruption of the world,' strives more successfully to make the loveliness known and to drive out the corruption." The words might have been applied to George McLean Harper himself, when he died last week...
Died. Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, 86, gentle, mild-mannered Representative from Texas' rich ninth district (Galveston and environs), the oldest member of Congress, in which he had served continuously for the past 30 years, 26 of them in a wheel chair; in Bethesda...
...only as the eyes of genius knew you, but as your witnesses and judges saw you, and your London juries, whose affections you so often stormed. Let us see you panting in the dust and heat of the arena, see you as the great Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, so often saw you, as your clients . . . and so many others saw you when they listened, spellbound and enthralled, while you were championing not their rights alone, but the rights of all men who possess the priceless heritage of liberty under English law. . . . Burst your marble fetters! Strip off your cerements...
Died. Minnie Dupree, 72, blonde toast of Broadway (The Music Master, with David Warfield) in the era of David Belasco and Richard Mansfield, veteran of a 60-year stage, screen and radio career; in Manhattan...
College schuss-makers will have a chance to hit the long white slopes of Mt. Mansfield, Vermont, over the Washington's Birthday weekend, when an American Youth Hostel sponsored ski party embarks for Stowe and the AYH ski dorm...