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...Stephen's parish hall, South Kensington, for the Conservative candidate Sir Patrick Spens. Churchill spent election night at home, appeared the next day at his own constituency, Woodford, burdened with a gold-headed cane and a somber mood. Mrs. Churchill was cheerful. She introduced the Labor candidate, young Seymour Hills, to Churchill. Hills grinned a buck-toothed grin and flushed. Said Churchill: "So you're the Labor candidate, are you?" and walked away...
...when Mary was 46, the Buckingham was torn down. Brother & sister moved to a seven-room, $30-a-day suite at the faintly seedy Hotel Seymour on West 45th Street. The brother died in 1925. Mary went out seldom after that-usually only around the corner to the ancient, prim Fifth Avenue Bank where she kept a checking account of $1,000,000. In 1927 Mary shut herself into her suite for good...
...kept her door bolted. She allowed her banker and her lawyer to call only at long intervals. On rare occasions she received her cousin Hollis Gale-usually asking him to bring a collection of menus from other hotels to be sure the Seymour was not cheating her on the prices of meals. Though she loved beef and cheese she felt they were too expensive, and never ordered them; a bellboy brought one meal a day to her suite. She refused to let anyone see her sign her name, and never made a will...
...took no newspapers, had no radio. She got her whole view of the changing world from the hotel windows over one traffic-jammed Manhattan street. She wore clothes designed in 1900. When the Seymour was modernized ten years ago she refused to let decorators enter her rooms; they went untouched. Finally, in the summer of 1948, Mary grew ill. Hotel employees and a doctor invaded her suite, found her lying amid squalor...
When Historian Charles Seymour turned in his resignation as president of Yale University last spring (TIME, April 18), he gave the university corporation a year's advance notice so that its 19 members would have plenty of time to find "fresh leadership of the most vigorous sort" to replace...