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...never married, turned over her Long Island estate to an order of Roman Catholic nuns, and lived quietly with a companion, Margaret McKenna, in a house in New York's Catskill Mountains. Greying heads never forgot her. Wrote Critic Alexander Woollcott in 1940: "I can recall her every intonation, her every gesture, her every bit of business . . . Maude Adams in The Little Minister! Bless me! I still can hear the music of her laughter as she danced in the moonlight [and] see the toss of her head in the firelight in Nanny Webster's cottage . . . Maude Adams...
...spite of all its law breaking, Sheldon loved Our Town-and so, it turned out, did Broadway. On opening night, someone asked Alexander Woollcott, who had tears in his eyes what he thought of it. Said he, with his customary extravagance: "I'd rather comment on the 23rd Psalm...
...Isabel keeps house. When he is there, he usually gets up at 7 ("The bell of Lawrenceville still rings in my head") and goes out for breakfast - sometimes to the railroad station, a three-mile walk. He eats whatever he feels like eating. "What did you have for lunch?" Woollcott once asked him. "Lobster Newburgh, cocoa and brandy." Said Woollcott with a shudder: "That's the worst meal since the Borden Breakfast...
...still shy and tense with strangers. He avoids cocktail parties as a waste of time, but loves dining out with people he knows, keeps a well-stocked cellar for home entertaining. (Quipped Friend Alexander Woollcott when Harriman became ambassador to London: "Oh to be in England now that Averell's there.") Like many a millionaire, he is thoughtless about pocket money, one day had to borrow a nickel and a penny from his legal counsel to get a candy bar and a handful of peanuts (his lunch) from a White House vending machine...
...glasses for anyone who could not afford his own. It took about 20 old pairs (nowadays it takes 40 pairs) to pay for a new one. Mrs. Terry got out and stumped church, civic and club groups, badgered her friends, and even got one of them, Alexander Woollcott, to put her on his radio show...