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...long public career began in Chicago, where he worked his way through the University of Chicago, had a try at journalism, got a law degree, hung out his shingle and became an apostle of reform. He was freed from the need of working for a living when he married Mrs. Anna Wilmarth Thompson, a wealthy divorcee. Between cultivating dahlias and collecting stamps, he annoyed Sam Insull, gave his legal talents free to Jane Addams of Hull House...
...jail librarian, he developed an interest in books. Freed in 1939, he took a small, book-lined office off Fleet Street. Soon he was quietly advising several booksellers. He wrote in a trade magazine: "I am in the book trade because I like it. I knew that I was engaging in an industry in which there were no fortunes to be made...
...cold-souled, pipe-fondling dispenser of gently eviscerating irony. Valerie's "pale unearthly face was . . . like some silky autumn pod." They were about as capable of love as a stuffed finch and a glass calla lily. Edith was twelve when she came to them, 21 when their death freed her. In all her years with them she had no enduring reason to believe that they felt affection or even pity...
...Tokyo Brothel-Keepers Association, "moved," they said, "by a spirit of democracy," recently freed their girls from the traditional system of indentured servitude, which had long been the basis of the famed Yoshiwara district. Last week General MacArthur, in the name of "the fundamental human rights," made it an order...
...time was short. His lungs were bad. A black-eyed, elegant young fellow, he kept to himself, painted furiously, and destroyed most of it as he went along. Soon Matisse, Picasso, Utrillo and Brancusi took him up, introduced him to cubism, African sculpture, and cafe life. The combination freed him from his academic inhibitions: he began painting pictures that were worth keeping. Then he set about destroying himself...