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...Angeles, though he had stayed up till 2 a.m. working on forthcoming speeches, Stevenson had perhaps the most successful day of his trip. Speaking to an audience of business and professional men at the Biltmore Hotel, he made an effective plea for greater and more intelligent popular participation in government. Once again he denounced legislative pandering to special interests, terming it closely akin to corruption. "Sound government," said Stevenson, "ends when the leaders of special groups call the tune, whether they represent capital, labor or farmers, veterans, pensioners or anyone else...
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...town the mob which had gathered to beat him with sticks and stones became so fierce that Bishop Ford's Communist guards fled in terror. Though knocked to the ground again & again, Bishop Ford did his best to walk calmly through the streets till the guards returned. In another town his neck was bound with a wet rope which almost choked him as it dried and shrank. Another rope was made to trail from under his gown like a tail. To humiliate them both, the Reds once forced him to undress before Sister Joan Marie. She caught a glimpse...
...Singer Sargent, Writers Norman Douglas, Gertrude Stein and Henry James. The great preoccupation at 19A Edith Grove was music, some of it provided by husband Paul, more of it by Cellist Pablo Casals. Pianist Artur Rubinstein or Singer Feodor Chaliapin. Beginning late in the evening, the music often lasted till morning, when everyone would adjourn to the dining room for breakfast, which sometimes included champagne-and raspberries. The raspberries were especially favored by Impresario Montague Vert Chester, who cared little about what he ate, provided it was pink. Through the pleasant confusion moved Muriel, her eyes alight, her large mouth...
During summer months, these green dicta issue from an ivory bower, a rustic, century-old house near Bennington, Vt. (winter headquarters: Mill Valley, Calif.). Carrying his 76 years lightly, Professor Overstreet is up at 4 on most mornings, dawdles over breakfast till 5:30 a.m. From then till 1 p.m. he writes in his barn. Afternoons are spent puttering about the garden and feeding a pet chipmunk. Since the nearest neighbor is half a mile away, the professor pretty much limits his interpersonal relations to his wife, with whom he spends the evenings studying a new enthusiasm, the mandolin...