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Once again the attempt is made to buy Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, from Jefferson M. Levy, who has agreed to sell to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. Most of the 48 Governors, whether Democrats or Republicans, are expected to do their bit in the $1,000,000 campaign which begins April 16. The Governor of Virginia is chairman of the Governors' committee. Despite the Democratic lien on the spellbinding words " Thomas Jefferson," the campaign is to render non-partisan honor to the memory of the author of the Declaration of Independence. "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness " belong...
...Colonel admitted a bit sheepishly. It is worth while to go to these things once every spring just to show yourself how much you're not missing the rest of the year...
...always easy to pick flaws in a play of this description and Dodson Mitchell's melodrama is no exception. Here things work out a bit too easily and the "long arm of coincidence" is surprisingly helpful. But in order to combat this, the author has busied himself more with the earlier denouements and complications, and allowed the audience to guess the final outcome. For example, before the play was half over, it was not a difficult matter to determine which half of the dual-role would win the hero, but it was not easy to accept all of the various...
...mandate without giving the Jews a nation.'" William T. Tilden, II: "In my new book on tennis I protest against the sports common in American scholastic life. 'Can you imagine,' I say, 'a group of busy merchants running out to the club for a bit of football in the afternoon? Will they organize their baseball team? Can you imagine inviting your best friend to "come out and run a mile with me this afternoon?" . . . Yet these are the forms of athletics that our schools teach boys. . . . Tennis is the real major sport.'" Wilhelm: "Irresponsible American...
...still cherish the ideals of its founder, who still believe that every man has the inviolable right to be seen as well as heard, and who have felt that the supporters of the glorious banner of freedom were flagging of late; we are glad to be able to print, bit by bit, as it comes to light the hitherto unpublished journal of a freeman, a pioneer of the proletariat, who has been sustaining single-handed for years a magnificent fight against the forces of repression. If the daring entries are fragmentary at first, allowance must be made for the tremendous...