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...Washington sped her devoted sons Senator Robert Marion and Governor Philip Fox La Follette. They arrived just in time to get a flickering smile of loving recognition from their mother before she slipped quietly away from them forever. Too late was her daughter Fola, wife of Dramatist George Middleton, hurrying east from Santa Monica. Of all the tributes evoked by the death of Widow La Follette none was more appreciated by her family than the one (not made public) from the outstanding Liberal of the U. S. Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Brandeis who signed himself "Uncle Louis." Mrs. La Follette...
...years. I was a married woman of 32 and had three children when we met. And he was 26. He had no money, and my family cut me off. Such courage he had! . . . You would know he was unusual, just by seeing him in a crowd." Concerning John Middleton Murry, whose biography of Lawrence recently appeared (TIME, May 4), she cried: "Murry is exploiting his acquaintance with Lawrence just as he exploited [his late wife] Katherine Mansfield! I suppose now he will do the same thing about his acquaintance with Arnold Bennett...
...Virgin and The Gipsy, TIME, Nov. 24) may not be his last word but it is a good place to stop. When published in Paris (1929) under the title of The Escaped Cock it drew words of high praise even from so belittling a Lawrence critic as John Middleton Murry. Devoutly orthodox Christians may find the story blasphemous (it will certainly be awarded a place on the Pope's Index Librorum Prohibitor urn) but regular Lawrence readers will doubtless take it as it was meant...
...biographies are as searching as this one; few biographers would have gone on such a search. John Middleton Murry and the late David Herbert Lawrence were once friends; now Murry has written a book to tell the world why Lawrence was a false prophet. His half-apologetic epilog is addressed to the dead man: "The evil that you did, is done; and it is evil. You muddied the spring of living water that flowed in you more richly than in any man of your time. . . . You bewildered men who might have learned from you. betrayed men who would have followed...
...Author, John Middleton Murry, minor soul, has one claim to fame: he was the husband of the late Katherine Mansfield. Two years before her death in 1923, Murry left his job as editor of the London Nation & Athenaeum; later started a monthly magazine of his own, the Adelphi. In Son of Woman he says he founded the Adelphi purely as a vehicle for Lawrence, and expected that Lawrence would come back to England to edit it. One of the most unpopular literary men in England, Murry was the original of the cruelly pilloried Editor Burlap in Aldous Leonard Huxley...