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...these early years, the new biography by the poet's grandson, Charles Tennyson, supplies much material never published before; Alfred hated to talk about them and his son, Hallam, had to scant them in his standard memoir of 50 years ago. Nothing, however, could so testify to Tennyson's magnetic power as this veneration by the second and third generations of his family. Charles, a distinguished lawyer and civil servant who is now 70 himself, remembers his towering grandfather in old age, shuffling downstairs in the morning and extending his great withered brown hand to the children...
...denomination's name to the less regional-sounding "American Baptist Convention." To counter any Southern suspicion that this was a new act of aggression, the Northerners also voted to invite their big Southern sister to unite with them in establishing the "American Baptist Convention." But there was scant hope that the Dixie Baptists would accept this extended hand...
...Push from the Publisher. Mrs. Roosevelt found there were new worries. The President was soon so preoccupied with national problems, said she, that he had scant time for the troubles of his sons. They discovered, to their resentment, that even they had to make appointments to see him. One of them who went to his father for advice was startled to have the President hand him a paper and say: "This is a most important document. I should like to have your opinion on it." The indignant son told his mother: "Never again will I try to talk to father...
This would seem a peculiar way for a coach to be spending his days with the Yale regatta a scant three weeks away. It is a temporary phenomenon. By tomorrow the Newell boathouse will be entirely abandoned, and all hands will be back at their oars operating out of Red Top, plying up and down the Thames to the extent of 20 miles...
Beams & Bows. At the third concert of the tour, when the Philadelphia's pint-sized conductor strode toward the podium in London's huge Royal Albert Hall before a glittering audience of 7,000, he got only scant applause. Most were watching the royal box, where Queen Elizabeth was just making her own arrival. But an hour later, when Ormandy had brought Brahms's Symphony No. i to a resounding end, the applause came heavy and this time it was all for Ormandy and the orchestra. And when he finished the program with Ravel's Daphnis...