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...Author. Wiseacres say that when a chameleon is put on a crazy quilt, it becomes fatally confused. On the U. S. crazy-quilt, most smart writers stick safely to their native patches, or seek like colors. Not so 39-year-old Thames (pronounced not Tems but as it is spelled) Ross Williamson. Born on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in Idaho, son of a Welsh-Norwegian father, a French-Irish mother, his mixed inheritance has well prepared him for the kaleidoscopic environment from which he is emerging as an able guide to the patchwork of the U. S. scene...
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...become Mayor of Minneapolis. He was Alexander Gilberg ("Buzz") Bainbridge, a political novice, looking older and wiser than his 47 years. As a Republican he had just defeated Farmer-Laborite Mayor William A. Anderson in a nip & tuck election. Mayor Anderson had kept Minneapolis from seeing Crazy Quilt, Fanny Brice's raw revue. He had vetoed the city's beer ordinance, sent citizens to St. Paul for Sunday drinks. Many a Minneapolitan, weary of reform, turned hopefully to "Buzz" Bainbridge and he did not disappoint them. With a theatrical flourish the Mayor-elect declared...
Author Van Vechten, when he was a child, used to collect birds' eggs, postage stamps, cigaret pictures, tobacco tags. Now he collects gaudy things of the mind, mostly reminiscences. Pieced together they make a kind of patchwork quilt, recalling. null strips of bright or sombre color, a bygone age. Neither very sacred nor very profane, they make good reading for belles-lettres' connoisseurs...
...streets "Murray-For-President" banners flapped in the drizzle. An Oklahoma band played "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You." "We're All for Alfalfa Bill," said a scrawled note thrown out by the engineer of a Katy train speeding through Collinsville. Governor Murray was presented with a quilt on which had been embroidered his "Bread, Butter, Bacon, Beans" slogan. Unveiled was a 16-ft. monument in his honor, with a large photograph embedded under glass and inscribed: Born in Collinsville...