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...Democratic candidate's first brush with the magic touch was provided by chunky John R. McFaden, a pressagent hired by the California Democratic Central Committee. Moved by the dramatic possibilities in Stevenson's scheduled visit to his birthplace on Los Angeles' Monmouth Avenue, McFaden wrote out a script for the occasion. The pressagent was particularly inspired by a vision of Stevenson marching up the walk to his childhood home. "This," read the script, "should be done with reasonable reverence in such a manner as to give cameramen a dramatic shot of a historical figure returning...
...Washington himself could curse too in his in frequent outbursts of temper; General Charles Scott recalled that Washington, when dressing down General Charles Lee for retreating at the battle of Monmouth, swore "until the leaves shook on the trees...
...many clergymen objected that Roman Catholic morality on this subject seemed to be no morality at all. At his diocesan conference, the Right Rev. Alfred E. Morris, Anglican Bishop of Monmouth, said that the choice should be made by the mother herself, "not in the agony of childbirth, but calmly and deliberately, as soon as pregnancy has been established ... A woman has an absolute right to say that, if her own life or that of her unborn child must be sacrificed, she chooses to die that the child may live...
QUENTIN KEITH, M.A. (CANTAB) Captain, U.S. Army Fort Monmouth...
...above-mentioned disease is known as "St. Anthony's fire." In any medical dictionary you will discover that erysipelas, not ergot poisoning, is referred to by the lay term of "St. Anthony's fire." A pox on your researcher for that obvious error. MILDRED A. FISHER, R.N. Monmouth...