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...Brand's home State promptly called attention to Mr. Brand's inconsistency (TIME, March 26). It seemed a flagrant case of bootlicking by Mr. Brand in 1925 and hamstringing in 1928. Mr. Burton called it "vicious." Mr. Brand left the floor of the House flabbergasted, humiliated, speechless...
...tells the extraordinary tale of the resurrection of Mrs. Eddy's footman and disciple, Calvin Frye. Frye was found one evening, "unconscious, speechless, eyes closed, apparently breathless, with no pulse and no indication of life. . . ." Frye was placed in a rocking chair. Mrs. Eddy stood over him, in the stuffy room, and said loudly: "Calvin, this cause needs you. Mother needs you and you must not leave. . . ." Frye at this supplication, wriggled and whispered: "I don't want to stay, I want to go." The next morning Frye was about his "mother's" business in the household...
...believe it. Ask any man of the Middle-bury team which played in the Stadium four years ago what that little group of howling manaics on the East side of the Horseshoe meant to him; ask the Harvard team of Saturday how much inspiration they drew from those speechless ranks on the West side...
Said a Portraitist Leonebel Jacobs: "Small . . . poised ... sophisticated . . . cosmopolitan . . . elusive." Men were speechless at first, then snared. She saw Koo. Her father saw his father. She married him. He came to Washington as Minister. Her money paid 26 servants, paid for gowns, motors, took the Koos on to the Court of St. James's, bought a private palace in London, furnished a smart apartment few knew about, left Mrs. Koo free to get whatever else she wanted in her own illogical compelling fashion...
...Ilvich Ulyanov Lenin as a man whom History will dub "The Great." But biographers would reflect: A child, he was one of the six children of a starved schoolmaster. A man, he lived for years expatriate and struggling outside the country he loved. A Power, he died paralyzed and speechless...