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...conservatism, the blind lust to save things which we do not understand or evaluate. More pretentious, and less satisfying, is a homily on the institution of marriage by Andre Maurois. M. Maurois fights hard to preserve his urbanity, but through it all glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself with engineering the situation that brings everything off. He is a clumsy device on the stage; he is clumsier, because more explicit, in the written homily...
Churchill served in the army under five reigns (Charles II, James II, William & Mary, William III, Anne). He was a colonel at 24. but 52 before he commanded a large army. After a brief apprenticeship under the French Marshal Turenne, he made a reputation as a putter-clown of rebellions-Monmouth's English yokels, the Irish kerns and galloglasses. When William III died, at 52. the stage was set for Marlborough's European campaigns, those "ten years of unbroken victory'' which Author Churchill will relate in further installments...
...seven are married and have presented Father Cuddihy with a grand total of 28 grandchildren (some of them nearly as old as his youngest daughter). A frequent summer visitor is the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John P. Chidwick. famed chaplain of the U. S. S. Maine, who likes to putter around the place in a ragged sweater. Publisher Cuddihy knows well many a famed politician, among them Herbert Hoover with whom he dealt while the Digest raised some $10,000,000 for War relief in Europe. (Publisher Cuddihy's private charities are understood to be large. ) He was an early...
...manner which wholly belies his business disasters. He has abandoned his palatial Euclid Avenue house (along with other Clevelanders who shared his faith ) but at his country home in nearby Northfield a butler still answers the door, stable boys mind the horses and a half-dozen gardeners putter around the 200-acre estate, and he is still Master of Hounds at the Summit Hunt Club. He has a small office in vastly-deflated Otis & Co., his old investment banking firm, but his business activities, if any, are a mystery to Cleveland...
...thing: I'll certainly enjoy business more than books. If there's anything I hate, it's to sit down and study the theory of economics. I may come back next spring and have another stab at the general, but I doubt it. Hey, where's my putter...