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...father was away. Francis Lee Higginson Jr. of Groton and Harvard, son of a famed Boston banking family, was serving in Key West, Fla. as a Lieut. Commander in the U.S. Navy. The mother who now lay so still and strange on the floor was the former Harriet Beecher Scoville of Hampton, Va., slim, vivacious, 31, a Back Bay Boston belle, great-granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher...
...abstention from liquor and tobacco; 2) training; 3) a natural gift for the game. A grandnephew of James Fenimore Cooper, he played billiards with some of the literary figures of his youth. Last week he recalled them the way a seaman recalls far ports of the earth. Henry Ward Beecher he remembered as a "just ordinary" player. Robert G. Ingersoll and Charles A. Dana were fair amateurs. Mark Twain was "a good fair amateur." Slosson also gave billiard lessons to famed soprano Adelina Patti...
When the Truman Committeemen arrive on the West Coast late this month, they may hear the Liberty ship praised even more lyrically if Captain Walter A. Brunnick is in port. Brunnick, 62, has skippered the Liberty Henry Ward Beecher 63,000 miles, carried bombs and gasoline to India by the long cold route south of Australia, ridden out a hurricane off Madagascar, survived a collision during a submarine attack off Brazil. His verdict on attacks made by the Liberties' detractors: "Flapdoodle...
Harriet (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements; produced by Gilbert Miller) brings history and Helen Hayes (Caesar and Cleopatra, Mary of Scotland, Victoria Regina) together again. The story of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96), from her marriage at 25 till the middle of the Civil War, Harriet is anything but a militant play, is only by fits & starts a serious one. It is more concerned with crinolines than crusaders. Perhaps it had to be. For while Harriet Beecher Stowe was lifted to the heights with Uncle Tom's Cabin, during most of her life she was bogged down in family...
...play does not even do justice to her extraordinary obsessing family. There was her father, old Lyman Beecher, bellowing salvation from his pulpit. There was her brother Henry Ward, heaving fashionable bricks from his. There were six other preacher brothers, a whalebone-and-woman's rights sister Catherine, an empty-pursed absent-minded professor of a husband, a batch of noisy kids. Uncle Tom, according to the play, got written with the house all Topsy-turvy. In the midst of Harriet's fame, cooks fired up and gave notice, a son got wounded in the war his mother...