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Work Horse. New Orleans proved less seductive than New Haven. Judah got a job with a notary, studied law in his spare time. Admitted to the bar, he promptly married Natalie St. Martin, a Creole girl with "the voice of a prima donna." She liked parties in the Vieux Carré. Judah preferred to work like a horse. When Natalie left him to live in Paris, he worked harder than ever...
...recent years, Harris had been handicapped by front-office interference. With the Boston Red Sox he was under the watchful eye of one of the smartest men in baseball, immortal Second Baseman Eddie Collins, who had been hired by Boss Yawkey to oversee his team of expensive prima donnas. Back with the Senators, after one season at Boston, Harris had to cope with aging Owner Clark Griffith, the Old Fox, who expected him still to be the Boy Wonder with Cuban semi-pros and Class-D bushers...
...said: "I am what you might call an independent Republican with Socialist leanings who frequently votes Democratic." Though com pletely loyal to Franklin Roosevelt, he could serve any other President with equal zeal. His only passion is for efficient government. This accounts for his office-holding longevity. The political prima donnas - Czars, Assistant Presidents, No. 1 Brain-Trusters, No. 2 New Dealers - may come & go, but the Smiths go on forever...
Crotchety Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the prima donna-packed House Ways & Means Committee, felt the tax rub. His own soliloquy: "We are dealing with the most hateful, difficult problem that ever came along in the annals of mankind...
...Society stood firmly behind Rodzinski, whose real reasons were musicianly: the Orchestra has had no dominating conductor since Toscanini left in 1936. Some of the musicians were as arrogant as some of the guest conductors, which is saying a lot. Rodzinski wanted an orchestra, not a collection of prima donnas...