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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Collingwood who assisted Nelson at Trafalgar and succeeded him in the Mediterranean command later wrote home to his wife: "Tell me, how do the trees which I planted thrive? Is there shade under the oak tree for a comfortable summer seat? Do the poplars grow at the walk, and does the wall of the terrace stand firm...
...McReynolds, who will be 79 on Feb. 3, resigned as Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. He was the last of the archconservatives. Justices Willis Van Devanter and George Sutherland had retired; Justice Pierce Butler, solid rock of conservatism, had died. The last leaf on the old tree was Justice McReynolds, and even his fierce keening ("The Constitution is gone! . . . This is Nero in his worst form") had subsided from grumpy, almost invariably dissenting opinions into simple votes of "No" against liberal legislation...
...somehow he had got too low. The left wing of the DC-3 brushed a high maple tree. There was a blinding blue flash as the ship ripped through a high-tension line, a deafening crash, silence. Then a woman began...
Married since 1935 to the art supervisor of the Chicago Board of Education, Wagener sees his wife only in the summer, when she visits him in Estes Park. He has a fine contempt for genealogical hoopla. Few years ago Sister Hilda clambered up the family tree, was gratified to discover no Jewish blood, annoyed to find two illegitimate greatgrandparents. Not at all annoyed was Brother Siegfried. "They're authentic bastards," he points out, "which is more than you can say for the Nazis...
...devotee of Eddie Guest decide whether or not Shelley's poetry is immoral; or like a Fence Club Sophomore telling Ely Cuthbertson how to play contract bridge. No doubt if the social-science texts being scrutinized fail to go down the line for Parson Weems and the cherry tree story, the good manufacturers will conclude that American youth is being inculcated with totalitarian propaganda...