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...much, Withers," says one schoolboy to another in Seaton's Aunt, one of the grisliest of the Tales, "but you know all the same." "Know what?" "Why, that they're there." "Who's there?" "Why, in the house. It swarms with 'em." By the end of the story the reader is likely to agree, without ever having been told just what...
...those monotonous speeches, it meant thousands of votes for "Hummon." Don't forget that the South is basically defensive in its thinking. It knows it has no friends outside the South, so it thinks it can counter its enemies by electing people like Long and Talmadge . . . SEATON OWENS Marietta...
...will not feed a gnat, let alone a healthy, expectant wife. The professor has been left on a shelf by loving friends and colleagues, to be dusted off at their convenience. Whenever these mistreated males threaten to let out a hearty, realistic beef about their grievances, Writer-Director George Seaton quickly smothers their growls under the suds...
...Mare's best novels, The Return (1910) and Memoirs of a Midget (1921) are model achievements in mixing realism with a profound sense of the strange. His best stories, especially Seaton's Aunt, have been compared with Henry James's classic Turn of the Screw for their shivery revelation of supernatural influences that might be merely states of mind...
Stassen himself continued his whirlwind campaign. He spent the morning of his 41 st birthday in Omaha, cut a cake given to him by dapper Fred Seaton, his Nebraska manager, then hurried home to listen to the returns. Then he was off to Bob Taft's home state. He was competing with Taft for 23 of Ohio's 53 delegates. If he could take a dozen from Ohio's "favorite son," it would be the end of Taft's chances...