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More than that, Cleveland-born Elizabeth Morrow is a well-educated woman. She studied at the Sorbonne and in Florence after graduation from Smith and has teaching experience. She taught in U. S. private schools for several years before she married in 1903. Modest and amazingly catholic in her interests, Mrs. Morrow, while raising four children, wrote poetry (Quatrains for My Daughter, Beast, Bird and Fish), and a child's book (The Painted Pig). She supervised the building of the beautiful Morrow house and gardens at Cuernavaca near Mexico City, helped Daughter Elisabeth run a school in Englewood...
...staff, no one hailed 29-year-old William Henry ("Bucky") Walters as an approaching tornado. A made-over third baseman whom Manager Bill McKechnie had bought from the Phillies last summer, Pitcher Walters had a natural sinker (the reason he flopped as an infielder) and miracle Manager McKechnie had taught him some tricks of the trade; but the Reds had much abler pitchers in Johnny Vander Meer, Lee Grissom, Paul Derringer...
...oxygen mask (TIME, Jan. 16). Oxygen administered in hospitals through cumbersome, complicated oxygen tents usually costs a patient $12 to $25 a day. Use of the small, neat inhalation mask, said Dr. Boothby, "should average only $5 to $8 a day," and in certain cases a patient "can be taught the entire technique of administering the oxygen to himself at home...
Gimlet-eyed, grandmotherly, soft-drawling Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) is a Southern gentlewoman who as a child liked to ride, hunt, shoot and play with the pickaninnies. A half-demented old family retainer taught her to read: by twelve she knew Shakespeare, Scott and Dickens "by heart," had "toyed with" the historical writings of Josephus, Motley, Gibbon. She read "no mushy children's books." Forty-two years ago she began writing a column of advice to the lovelorn which was not perceptibly influenced by any of the writers who had formed her girlish mind...
...Seymour Weiss, the bald, polite $15-a-week shoe salesman of 1924, the $25-a-week Roosevelt Hotel barbershop manager of 1925, has been immensely' wealthy and powerful since he polished up Huey Long's manners in 1927, taught him to play golf and enjoy himself in night clubs. Weiss became pressagent for the Roosevelt Hotel the same year, gave bounding Huey and his bodyguards a free suite of rooms for the publicity, has harvested ever since from that...