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Natural Law. In South Dakota he was once called to a farmhouse where the father of five children had died while convalescing from typhoid. To the widow's tearful question, "Why did God take my husband?", Harkness made the stock answer: it was the will of God to which all must submit. But on the drive back to town, the doctor turned to the minister to ask: "Why did you tell her that nonsense about the will of God? Against my strict orders she gave her husband a meal of fried pork, and it killed him." Then, says Harkness...
...locomotive that Casey drove on his last ride. After a parade and concert, aged (76) Sim Webb, who had sat on the fireman's side of the Cannonball Express cab that night, rose and told again how he had jumped to safety before the crash. Casey's widow Janie, eightyish but still perky enough to relish an occasional nip of bourbon, also had her say. She indignantly denied the song lines attributed...
Phoenix is a blowup of Petronius' famous 1,900-year-old yarn, The Matron of Ephesus. It tells of an inconsolable widow mourning at her husband's bier; and of the soldier who .happens in and consoles her so wondrously that, when someone steals the body he was supposed to guard, she offers her husband's in its place. Petronius tosses the yarn off like a firecracker; Fry draws it out like an accordion, often brightening the proceedings but sadly blunting the effect. Heavy staging blunted it further...
...signorine looked good to the infantrymen, and the infantrymen looked good to the signorine. "Men!" cried one lusty widow as she "smoothed the dress down over her body and stepped out of her house onto the pavement." In their own way, the British were equally enthusiastic : "This ol' street may niff a bit, but it don't smell as bad as . . . those unburied dead rottin' out there in the sun . . . Some of these judies aren't bad lookers." Before the week was out, many of the company had made themselves right at home. They dandled bambini...
...bequest from C. Hugo Reisinger '12, the son-in-law of Busch, increased the grant. Recently, Mrs. Busch Greenough, Busch's daughter and the widow of Reisinger, presented the Emdee Busch Greenough Endowment, the income of which is for unrestricted use by the museum...