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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Farley: "I bristled with indignation." He was told that the President thought he was nursing presidential aspirations for 1940. Roosevelt, he said, found fault with everyone he "suspected" of wanting to be President. "They were either too old or too young; too ambitious or too unknown, too conservative or too radical, or too poor in health or too lacking in personality...
...this century's most remarkable writers, still almost unknown in the U.S., was the subject of a discerning biography by Max Brod...
...appointment with steady nerves. The Juneau Chamber of Commerce had the Governor in to lunch. He attended a gathering of Indians at Wrangell's Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, responded politely when one Chief Shakes made him a member of the Tlingit Tribe and renamed him Kitchnahshch (meaning unknown to Governor Gruening). He shipped in dozens of watercolors by WPA artists to brighten the buff walls of the big, old-fashioned governor's mansion, picked a hot desert scene with violet clouds to hang beside his lace-canopied, four-poster...
Died. Julio Tello, 67, Peru's No. 1 archeologist; of an unknown disease that popular legend attributes to germs picked up in old Indian tombs; in Lima, Peru. Fellow experts often disagreed with dour little Tello's historical conclusions, but fellow Indians hailed him for his favorite one: that they are not members of an inferior race...
...shuffled slowly through the Yard. He was drearily humming the tune whose words went ". . . sleeping in the noonday sun." It seemed the whole city of Cambridge was sleeping, like some Italian village. The rush and stir of exams, Commencement, and Reunion had passed. Tercentenary Theater had returned to its unknown lair from which it would not emerge until next June; the Yard was shady, quiet, and deserted. Ivy-covered Widener frowned down on ivy-covered Emerson and ivy-covered Sever. Vag was sorry that he had stayed in Cambridge. Better to have gone almost anywhere--New York, Maine...