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...Boston newspaper recently decided that it had just the right reviewer for this book: famed patriarch of Boston pols, ex-Mayor James Michael Curley. When he agreed, the paper mailed him a check along with the review copy. Back came the book and check in a few days, with a curt note from the doughty octogenarian: "The matter is in the hands of my attorneys." Reason for his indignation: a strong resemblance between the book's hero, Frank Skeffington, and James Michael Curley. Asked if he considered Skeffington to be a portrait of himself, Curley snapped: "No question about...
...realized what was happening, most of his thick, long beard was gone. The philosopher was Martin Buber, the world's leading Jewish thinker. Today Buber's beard has grown back to its full splendor, and he once more looks like what he is: a modern Jewish patriarch...
...decision owed much to the powerful will of David Ben-Gurion, who, at 69, looks like an Old Testament patriarch with white hair foaming up from each side of his thrusting head. A Zionist and Socialist visionary, a prophet who packs a pistol, Ben-Gurion led the republic for its first six years until, frustrated by party niggling in his coalition, he retired to live in the pioneer settlement of Sde Boker on the southern desert. Eleven months ago he dramatically returned to politics on the eve of elections, hoping to win decisive control of Parliament but achieving only...
...Gettysburg White House went a petition urging the release of the 16 second-string U.S. Communists now behind bars for Smith Act violations. The signers: Eleanor Roosevelt, Socialist Party Patriarch Norman Thomas, News Commentator Elmer Davis, plus 43 other citizens, about half of them Protestant divines. A "Christmas amnesty" for the Reds, the petition argued, would help prove U.S. confidence in democratic institutions, boost the reputation of the U.S. abroad, and "contribute toward peace in the world." Meanwhile, in her monthly Q. & A. column ("if you ask me") in McCall's magazine, Petitioner Roosevelt...
...Harmony, in southern Utah, John D. Lee performed such prodigies of farming and building that within a few years he was patriarch of a mighty family numbering some 50 souls. Patriarch Isaac Morley exclaimed: "Why, Bro. Lee . . . You have Houses & Habitations, Flocks & Heards, wives & children in every direction. I Marvel when I see what the Lord has accomplishd through...