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...Roosevelt city. On the outskirts a group of WPA workers leaned on their shovels, booed lustily as he passed. As his car continued down crowded Broadway the boos swelled into a great, derisive roar. There were cheers, too, sometimes rising above the boos, sometimes being drowned out. Alf Landon bore his mile-long ordeal with composure, but once inside his hotel he seemed, to members of his party, crushed...
...Tribune's late great Publisher Joseph Medill had no sons, two daughters. Daughter Katharine married Diplomat Robert S. McCormick, bore Medill, who became a U. S. Senator, and Robert R. McCormick. Daughter Elinor married Editor Robert W. Patterson, bore Joseph and Eleanor Patterson. As rich men's sons, Cousins "Bertie" and "Joe" both went to Groton and Yale. Afterward, both dabbled in Chicago politics but with notably different approaches. Cousin Bertie remained true to his class, performed efficient civic service as an orthodox Republican. Cousin Joe turned social-conscious and, along with several novels and plays, wrote Confessions...
...Nijinsky, now interned in a Swiss insane asylum, Stravinsky writes: "He spoke little, and, when he did speak, gave the impression of being a very backward youth whose intelligence was very undeveloped for his age. . . . The poor boy knew nothing of music. . . ." To Stravinsky, German Richard Wagner is a bore, his fellow Slav, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a genius of late greatly underrated. Stravinsky says he detests "star conductors" who pride themselves on their interpretations. According to Stravinsky's precepts the composer's notations should be all-sufficient...
...astounding fortitude of girls "in trouble'' sustained her, stifled her groans, betrayed her labor to her parents by not so much as a grimace. After her parents went to bed, she went to the bathroom. There, alone and without sound, crouching in a tormented daze, she bore her son. She thought, she swore in court last week, that he was born dead. After a rest the girl gathered her infant in her arms, mounted to the tenement roof. She walked to the neighboring airshaft, planning, she swore, to toss self and child over the edge. She fainted...
...Oregon, where he once walked out on strike with IWWorkers. He married a lumberman's daughter, still has big lumber and paper interests. Until last year Ben Alexander ran Masonite from Wausau, Wis., his home town. There he gave the city an airport, was rated First Citizen, bore the distinction of having installed the first home bar in Wausau. Now Ben Alexander lives in Chicago's Drake Towers with his dark, slim wife and two adopted children...