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...Tess firsthand. As a young architectural draftsman specializing in church restoration, he courted Emma Gilford, a solicitor's daughter. It proved to be a mismatch worthy of one of his own plots. "What very strange marriages literary men seem to make," Fanny, the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, remarked after meeting Emma. She might have said the same thing after meeting Florence Dugdale, Hardy's second wife, who suffered from chronic depression. Typing up poetry that addressed Emma as "woman much missed" did little to cheer up the second...
Both sides, though, still appear to have plenty of energy. Police have been called in to guard the structure from demolition crews; preservationists have staged all-night vigils; private security guards have barred the Gordon Group from access to the grounds. City Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson, who led last year's fight to declare the Garden Court Historic-Cultural Monument 243, decided later that the building should go-a flip-flop that, she insists, has nothing to do with CD's $2,500 contribution to her campaign...
...Illinois, "Big Jim" Thompson's bid for a third term has been hobbled less by his Democratic opponent, former Senator Adlai Stevenson III, 51, than by what G.O.P. political analysts call the Governor's tendency "to shoot himself in the foot." The once popular Thompson, 46, has been hurt by charges that he used campaign funds for personal expenses, accepted gifts from people who do business with the state government and attempted to get his wife Jayne a federal judgeship. A Chicago Tribune poll last month snowed him trailing Stevenson for the first time...
...integrity of your Governor," said the President. "I would be very surprised if he did anything that could be called malfeasance." But one Thompson aide conceded that although the Governor "has not done anything illegal," the accusations of impropriety were damaging "especially when tied to a rotten economy," So Stevenson continues to gain despite his languid campaigning style. The Democrat's coffers, which a few months ago held less than $5,000, are now brimming with $650,000-still less than half the amount the incumbent has raised. White House political operatives acknowledge that Thompson now needs...
...Movie Critic Vincent Canby has noticed that the 'word film has become imbued with a good deal of snootiness that is not to be found in the word movie. Moderate is highly susceptible to coloring in many different ways, always by the fervid partisans of some cause: Adlai Stevenson, once accused of being too moderate on civil rights, wondered whether anyone wished him to be, instead, immoderate...