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President Roosevelt asked them what they had done so far to justify Congress' seven months sojourn in Washington. Speaker Bankhead started to rattle off a list of bills passed-bills for the most part neither important nor publicly known. The President squelched him with a roar of laughter. Presently the visitors came out and gave the press a list of five bills to be acted on before adjournment...
Respecting his long sojourn in Boston, he comments to his class secretary as follows: "Finally, I have learned to face with equanimity the oft made discovery that I am an Eli-in Boston...
...view as contrasted with Norman Maine's own evaluation of his decline and its effect on his wife that gives the latter portion of A Star Is Born its effectiveness. The drunken speech in which Maine betrays his jealousy when his wife gets an Academy Award; his sojourn in a sanatorium to recover from the jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best individual justification of Technicolor...
...Harry Ross and Private Detective Max D. Krone, charged with extorting $5,000 from President Samuel C. Stampleman of Gillette Safety Razor Co. Ruefully President Stampleman told of how he had been introduced to brunette Helen Conboy in 1933, had taken her to Boston for a four-day "platonic" sojourn at the Statler Hotel. Not long thereafter Detective Krone approached Mr. Stampleman, arranged for $5,000 to persuade Miss Conboy not to sue Mr. Stampleman for doping and assaulting her. "I'd have gladly paid $10,000," snapped Razorman Stampleman. "That affidavit of hers was just plain murder...
...with Six Characters in Search of an Author. Believing life "a very sad piece of buffoonery," he constructed his unrealistic plots to prove that "nothing is true and anything might be." At his death, unpredictable Playwright Pirandello was finishing a volume to be called Memories of My Involuntary Sojourn on Earth...