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...Washington, D. C., 82-year-old George Boarman became the father of his 26th child, by his third wife, 21. Oldster Boarman's first 25 children were by his first wife. He met the present Mrs. Boarman last year when he worked on her father's farm. Proud of his "crackerjack" record, he explained: "I stand in well with the Lord...
...Morgan publicly exploded. Beyond that, Arthur Morgan flooded and occasionally bored the committee with details in support of his complaints that the other directors shoved him around', deceived him, the public and the President, wasted TVA money, based yardstick rates on spurious or nonexistent cost calculations. But if Oldster Arthur Morgan would cut no capers to supply entertainment, loud Representative Thomas A. Jenkins, a Republican from Ironton, Ohio, made up for the deficiency...
...Sister Eileen, 26-year-old Ruth McKenney harks back to that happy period with the air of a mellow oldster. Originally published in The New Yorker, the 14 sketches in My Sister Eileen give a cloudy picture of Eileen, a clearer view of Ruth herself, a better account of girlish misadventures during elocution lessons, bird studies in a girls' camp, a correspondence with a French boy in a high-school class in French, the embarrassments of waiting on table in a Fred Harvey lunchroom, interviews for a college paper...
...dangling bare leg: "Down with this sacrilege; wearing nothing but a bathing suit! This is supposed to be a God-fearing country." Lady Godiva's father, marching beside the mare, knocked the old man to the pavement. The crowd pinned him down. As police dragged the oldster to safety he shrieked: "How dare they do that to a little girl of 13? Poor little innocent-making an exhibition of herself at that tender age! I think it's awful." Unabashed, Lady Godiva calmed her rearing mare, rode...
Significance. To Washington observers who regarded the investigation as a contest between a high-minded oldster (Arthur Morgan), able but unstable, and a purposeful man (David Lilienthal), not too squeamish about the means necessary to promote public ownership in which he heartily believes, shrewd Mr. Lilienthal would have the better of it. Save as a political incident, the investigation appeared important only as it might publicize some lesser known facts about the Government's "widest experiment...