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...also for Ireland. She did not agree with Eamon de Valera's government. She wrote her memoirs, and was outraged when Communist organizers came to Ireland in 1930 and "one young puppy had the cheek to tell me they had come to teach us how to fight." Bedridden but still a political force, she backed her son, Sean MacBride, and his Republican Party in a successful campaign against De Valera in 1948, but when she went to the polls, one who saw her cried: "That woman is exactly like a ruined cathedral." All those who had known...
Brown, with victories over B.C. and Yale, will be tough to beat on its own ice. But on top of that, Crimson right wing Dick Clasby may well not be playing at all. He was bedridden yesterday with a touch of the flu, and won't play unless well...
Within little more than a year, however, Grace Vanderbilt, now in her mid-80s, was bedridden. Within two years she was blind. Last week, she died of pneumonia. Totally dependent on others in the last years of her life, and confined to the little world of her bedroom, she sometimes remembered the great days at Beaulieu. She would say to whoever was near by: "Come, let's go for a drive, darling." Then her companion, sitting down by Mrs. Vanderbilt's bed, would take her on an imaginary tour of Newport. "There's a sparkle...
...take long to dig them up. Reporter Hill went to an outlying district, found that the dead, insane and bedridden sick had been voted. The paper covered its front page with printed registration records and poll slips to show the forged signatures...
...once-proud Democratic organization of New York has been in a long decline. Malnutrition is not the trouble: it has had plenty of federal and local patronage. What's lacking is leadership muscle, especially since Bronx Boss Ed Flynn has been bedridden...