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Politics & Potboilers. This exhaustive biography is valuable for the documentation it gives of Stephen Foster's politics. He wrote sentimental songs about the slaves, but did not believe they could be freed. His Pittsburgh family were fairly well-to-do (one brother was vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad) and strong Democrats. James Buchanan, Lincoln's predecessor, was a relative by marriage, and for him Foster in 1856 wrote two campaign songs...
Goshen's well-to-do E. Roland Harriman, co-owner with Major Elbridge Gerry (now overseas), got the one-year custodianship of the gallon-sized Hambletonian "cup," and a pint-sized replica for keeps. These he probably valued more than Titan's $27,608.33 share of the purse, which he needs less than Titan needs...
What the Sirens Sang. Harold Joseph Laski was born (1893) in drab, industrial Manchester, but not to drabness: he was the son of a well-to-do Jewish merchant. As a youth, he was enchanted by those sirens of British socialism, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, who were warbling their Fabian lays over the bleaching bones of Karl Marx. At Oxford, Laski joined the Fabian Society, campaigned for woman suffrage, was a brilliant student in his spare time. When World War I came, Laski disapproved, but tried to enlist. He was turned down because of a weak heart. He went...
...sake reached Britain at the height of her prosperity. Painters, buyers and art critics were flourishing as never before (or since) in a happy bond of mutual agreement. On the broad walls of well-to-do Victorian homes hung immense canvases which told stories that were easily understood and appreciated-the capture of a dishonest bank clerk at a crowded railroad station, Derby Day, a bearded doctor's vigil at the bedside of a sick child, a sailor's sweetheart gazing across the ocean. Most of these painted short stories had a helpful moral...
Rumor: three well-to-do Denver citizens have recently died for lack of hospital care. Fact: most Denver hospitals are so crowded that they have waiting lists of surgical patients. Yet the 700-bed municipal Denver General Hospital has 250 empty beds. To City Councilman Edward J. Mapel, the solution to this problem looked simple: open the city hospital to any paying patient...