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...Peking and is president of its Communist-run university. Wife Elizabeth MacLeod lives in Vermont with their son Rennie and her father-in-law. Old Mr. MacLeod, who was once adviser to the Boy Emperor (1909-12) and took a Chinese woman to wife, has gone Confucian in the saddest way. Mrs. MacLeod calls him "Baba" ("It is easier to say than Father") and he is also thoroughly gaga...
Donol Hedlund, a respected and influential Seattle mortgage banker, flushed deeply, swallowed hard, spun the saddest yarn of all. With Joseph McEvoy, the nephew of Beck's wife, and one other associate, Hedlund established the National Mortgage Co., thanks partly to the $35,000 contribution from Uncle Dave to McEvoy. Then Hedlund, Beck and Teamster Lawyer Simon Wampold organized an outfit called the Investment Co., which drew brokerage commissions on Teamster money invested by Beck. Through the mortgage company, Beck put a tidy $9,000,000 in Teamster funds into mortgages, and through this company, Beck's family...
...partially tragic and essentially "realistic," but on the whole, optimistic about the value of living and the inward strength of his country. "You know that I am no Pollyanna now, or that I think God's in his heaven. I don't and I agree with Ecclesiastes that the saddest day of a man's life is the day of his birth--but after that, I think the next saddest day is the day of his death...
...sharp contrast to a few others in the party, beneath whose traditional robes reporters spotted signs of a more modern dress; one Saudi's robe flapped open to reveal a powder-blue ensemble-silk sports shirt buttoned at the neck, double-breasted blue zoot suit. The best and saddest scene-stealer of the group was sloe-eyed Prince Mashhur, the crippled, brown-faced, 3½-year-old favorite son of the King, who had brought the boy to seek expert American medical attention at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital (see MEDICINE...
...that's the saddest task a man could choose...