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...Staying With Relations) Rose Macaulay has fled all the way into the 17th Century, to a copiously documented historical romance of Cavalier England. Smacking more often of Aladdin's than the student's lamp. The Shadow Flies offers the reader a rich mouthful of a spicy age. Parson-Poet Robert Herrick's Devonshire parish (1640) is the first scene, with the parson cursing his parishioners by name from the pulpit, wining with his London friend Sir John Suckling, tutoring pretty young Julian Conybeare, the atheist doctor's daughter. Julian's father falls foul...
...Garner acceptance letter: "It is not government business to make individuals rich, though too often has government been bent to that purpose. . . . Attempting to enforce morals by law [is] an unjustifiable invasion of the field preempted by the churches and schools. . . . Government is not a pedagog nor a parson nor a pied piper; it is merely a convenience of civilization...
Manager v. Swinger. California has had no Democratic Senator since James Duval Phelan's term expired in 1921. On the Aug. 30 primary ballot are six names: Parson M. Abbott, Maurice James McCarthy, Annie Riley Hale, Robert Pierce Shuler, Justus S. Wardell, William Gibbs McAdoo. Abbott and McCarthy are irreconcilable supporters of Alfred Emanuel Smith who still think this is 1928. The candidacy of Mrs. Hale (Colyumist Heywood Broun's mother-in-law) is not taken seriously. ''Bob" Shuler, a radio revivalist, is a political maverick who is also running in the Republican primary. The real race appeared...
Last week the following were news: Hubert Templeton Parson resigned as president of F. W, Woolworth Co. and was succeeded by Byron DeWitt Miller, 55, vice president & treasurer. Mr. Parson will be 60 (Woolworth retirement age, suddenly enforced) next September. He also gave illness (arthritis) as a reason for his resignation. There have been rumors of a rift in the Woolworth management for some time. Last year Mr. Parson made many an optimistic statement regarding the company at the time a pool was trying to push the stock. The new ruler of 2,430 stores in five countries started...
...paign was managed mostly by leaders of the State's Democratic organization. His energetic young son James went out to electioneer. On primary eve the Roosevelt forces made prodigious claims about sweeping the State. A Smith campaign had been conducted by good 1928 friends of the Brown Derby - Parson M. Abbott, David F. Supple, Edward W. Cahill -whose strategy was to depend on old loyalties rather than new issues. Meantime the Garner candidacy was backed by three potent Californians - William Gibbs McAdoo, William Randolph Hearst, Will Rogers. The onetime Secretary of the Treasury, heading the slate of Garner delegates...