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Persimmons in Sparta. As Massachusetts' 55th governor, Christian Herter joins a variegated pantheon of men who have occupied the handsome old Bulfinch statehouse. The first governor was John Hancock, a vain and arrogant aristocrat who was as popular as he was inept, won nine terms in office. Poor, plain Sam Adams tried and failed to turn the Commonwealth into a "Christian Sparta." The election of David I. Walsh marked the rising tide of immigration: he was the first Irish Catholic to win the governorship. Persimmon-faced Cal Coolidge reversed the trend, turned back to Yankee conservatism. In three terms...
...heard uttering millions of words of protest in the next 14 years first sounded across the Senate chamber decrying the Federal Government's adventures in business and, on that score, protesting an appropriation for TVA. Tall, ungainly, eying the Senate through rimless spectacles, he hammered at the "vain, immoral and dangerous" precepts of the New Deal, demanding, the redirection of current tendencies, since otherwise "we cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty...
That sums up the last two years of the Korean war. The men who died fighting it did not die in vain. Even the truce, which represents a long-term failure of U.S. will, is far better in terms of justice than if the Reds had been allowed to overrun Korea...
Steadfast Devotion. The Chancellor hoped in vain. The gossip grew even louder (it has assumed "the shape of scandal," protested the stately London Times). And it seemed likely to continue for months to come. The latest word is that the Queen, the Queen Mother and Margaret herself have agreed to do nothing until the Queen and Philip return from a visit to Australia next May. The royal family apparently hopes that by then Margaret's ardor for Airman Townsend-now neatly isolated in an air attache's job in Brussels -will have cooled. Margaret apparently hopes that...
...collector of great art (e.g., Gainsborough's The Blue Boy), and a ladies' man (four marriages, three divorces). To celebrate his third marriage (to Socialite Loelia Ponsonby) in 1930, he granted his poorer tenants remission of arrears and a week's free rent, but hoped in vain for a son to succeed...