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...Poet Louis Mac-Neice, Composers Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson drifted in & out. At meals, Auden presided at one end of the table. He also did the bookkeeping, and was irritated if any of the tenants questioned their bills. Benjy always paid up (about $25 a week) without a murmur...
Deanna Durbin, 25, flouted Hollywood tradition by announcing the breakup of her marriage in a barely audible voice. (The marriage, to 45-year-old Scenarist Felix Jackson, was her second.) Deanna had her attorney murmur simply: "There is no difficulty ... of any particular public interest. Each of them declines to discuss the matter...
Then Franco's police caught up with him. In prison at Alcalá de Henares, he and the other "politicals" were forced to go to Mass. One Sunday the priest delivered a sermon on the commandment No matarás (Thou shalt not kill). The prisoners murmured and the murmur rose to a roar: "No matarás! No matarás! No matarás!" The jailers decided that Sánchez had started it and gave him four months in solitary...
There was but one exception to the giant murmur of discontent that rose over the general mess on the Cantabridgian streets. That was Texan Freshman whose only other experience with snow was through a family narcotics ring. Sliding down an ice pile behind Widener, he announced he loved it knee deep. He was the only one, but the only handicap of this editorial is that we can't blame anyone either for this or for '88. The historical method may be the best to tackle the problem...
...personal fortune in England (estimated at $6,300,000) the British government doled out enough for a simple existence. He took the name Count of Pollenza, after a village in northern Italy. He walked and fished. When he read of events in his ex-country, he was heard to murmur, "This will be the death of me." On Christmas Eve, 1947, he was stricken with a lung infection complicated by hardening of the arteries. Four days later, in Alexandria, death, as it must to all kings, came to Victor Emmanuel. Clutching at a handkerchief, dry-eyed Elena...