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...institution where verbosity is a virtue, Javits is probably the greatest virtuoso of them all?at least since Hubert Humphrey departed. "He knows the facts on everything," says Marion???and he can summarize them in a few thousand choice words at a moment's notice. Back in 1961, Javits was orating on an immigration bill that he considered unjust when Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore tried to gain the floor. "Let me finish," pleaded Javits. Pastore looked up at the chamber's high ceiling, rolled his eyes dramatically and moaned: "The Senator never finishes...
...crowd are identical triplets? Mary, Marie, Marion???dressed exactly alike. The observer thinks he recognizes Mary (an electron). He taps her on the shoulder. She turns around. Now the observer does not know whether she is Mary, Marie or Marion. Her identity is uncertain. The tapped girl pauses and may decide not to go to the show that evening. As a theatre-going electron she therefore disappears...
...funds, arranged a series of concerts that netted $10,000, arranged through Otto Kahn an audition with the Metropolitan Opera authorities in November, 1922. There followed months of study in Manhattan, then more concerts in Kansas City, Kan., in Lindsborg, Kan., in Emporia. The Talleys?mother, Florence and Marion???went to Italy, stayed nearly a year in Milan. Marion studied languages, interpretation, acquired a repertoire. There on July 4, 1925, she and Signer Gatti-Casazza met, drew up the contract whose fulfillment began last week...
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