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Back in 1948, the President answered critics of his White House balcony by saying that Mrs. Fillmore "almost got lynched" after her husband put in the first bathtub. Eighteen months ago, while escorting Novelist John (The Wall) Hersey through the presidential mansion, Truman retold the tale. White House Secretary Bill Hassett, who was standing at his elbow, gently told the President the awful truth...
Truman was undiscouraged. Last week, in a speech to federal hospital executives at Philadelphia, the President not only retold the Fillmore bathtub tale, but improved it: Mrs. Fillmore (rather than the President), he said, had installed the first bathtub in the White House, and for her pains had been censored by Cincinnati doctors as an indecent person...
...Eire and the ancient ways" that led to the new Ireland are suggested in a series of myths retold by Standish O'Grady. James Stephens and Lady Gregory. More contemporary myths are provided by James Joyce in a passage on Parnell lifted whole from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and by J. M. Synge in his magnificent memoir on the Aran Islands...
This is one of the oldest stories in the world, and Author Vittorini, like most of those who have retold it, has failed to avoid seamy sentimentality. His prostitute, aflame with love on one burner and cooking up illicit narcotic deals on the other, seems to Mainardi to be "The Madonna on Horseback"; but to the reader she is just a pipe dream. When the cops put her away at the end of the book, it is no more poignant than a decision by the gas company to lock up the meter...
...ticket between the plaster fingers, he whizzed by the collection station, left both ticket and hand in the grasp of a horrified attendant. In addition, he has diverted himself by planting fake pearls in oysters, coaching South Sea Island native youngsters in fantastic Troy-devised folk tales to be retold to gullible anthropologists...