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...came from Mrs. Eleanor Brooke, a Washington, D.C. housewife, who, as Jean had been earlier, was a graduate student in Walter Kerr's drama class at Washington's Catholic University in 1948. Mrs. Brooke collected a vast pile of research and turned it into a lengthy character sketch of an egomaniac. Working on and off in her mobile office, Jean invented additional characters and material and built the play in six months...
...This sketch of Keats This wondrous boy− Today I made the flowing joy− Expression mild he gives delight To one like me of failing light− Long may he live for Beauty's sake− Is the wish of W. Blake...
...bitterly resent your biased and misleading sketch of Vice President Aaron Burr ... A rehash of old calumnies, invented by his enemies ... It would have been more appropriate for you to have called attention to his many fine personal qualities and to his great services to our country...
...control, and watching 19 different fire-engine companies come roaring to the scene. Then, just as the wind rises, you get a message saying that what the editors really want to know is the amount of property damage and also a complete biography and personality sketch of the arsonist." Actually, says McConaughy, the number of Congressmen a reporter talks to each day is not necessarily significant. "One day you may spend six hours in the House lobby just fishing and shooting the breeze and talk to 30 of them and get nothing. The next day one phone call will result...
...member of McClellan's staff, Prince de Joinville asked for no special privileges and got none. He lived a soldier's life, and his pictures reflect a soldier's-eye view of the war, e.g.. his sketch of General Andrew Porter. De Joinville was chatting with a group of officers one afternoon when he saw the general crossing the parade ground. He whipped out his pencil, captured the pomposity of the potbellied commander astride an equally pompous, arch-necked mount...