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...attention to campaign canards. . . . In the interest of truth I am compelled to deny that I ever urged or suggested that Mrs. Willebrandt discuss any man's religion . . . nor did I ever insert any religious comment in any speech she ever made, nor was any manuscript of hers containing any attack on any man's religion or raising the religious issue ever submitted to or scrutinized by me, nor did any manuscript of her Springfield speech which came to headquarters contain any such expression as 'Go back to your pulpits and preach this doctrine' or anything...
...poets' wives are pressed for money. Recently when Mrs. Alfred Noyes decided to lay her hands on an extra ?30.000 ($150,000) or so, she knew exactly how to touch the money. She would sell an old manuscript left her by her grandfather. For years it had been displayed on loan at the British museum...
John Pierpont Morgan presently went to see Mrs. Noyes's heirloom: the famed Luttrell Psalter, an exquisitely illuminated manuscript psalmbook made in East Anglia about 1340 for rich Sir Geoffrey Luttrell. Reverently the financier turned the crackly pages, gravely he viewed an inset miniature of Sir Geoffrey with two ladies. Presently he laid the Psalter down, said that it ought not leave England...
Last week the British Museum was able to announce: that Mrs. Noyes had sold her manuscript privately for ?32,476 ($157,500); that the money had been advanced by Mr. Morgan; that if the British Museum should raise ?32,476 within a year and pay it to Mr. Morgan they could keep the Luttrell Psalter forever; that anyhow they can keep it for a year on loan...
They are not sung because, until last week, they have never been published. But they are included in a manuscript copy of the song given to the Library of Congress last week by Leander McCor-mick-Goodhart, Commercial Secretary of the British Embassy...