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...Oswald himself joined the Marines in 1956, he was nicknamed "Ozzie Rabbit" because of his baby face and his reticence in making friends???which was mistaken for shyness. Yet he was twice court-martialed, once for unauthorized possession of a pistol and once for abusive language to a sergeant. And he was unpopular among his barracks mates for his open advocacy of Marxism...
...lives with his wife, the former Maybelle Hope Small, who embarrasses him before company by asking "How's my itty mans?" They occupy an expensive co-operative apartment at No. 290 Park Ave., in which McIntyre's favorite room is his "den," festooned with pictures of dogs, relatives, friends???"a cosy higgledy-piggledy...
...minute of the day and goes to her Connecticut farmhouse, isolated on a bad road branching off other bad roads. Often she drives there speedily, expertly in her blue Studebaker. In Connecticut she turns herself over to her caretaking couple, her gardens, her guitar. There she entertains her closest friends???Elsie Janis, Ethel Barrymore, Clare Eames, Constance Collier, Mrs. Stuart Benson (business manager of the Civic Repertory Theatre), Madame Ouspensky (directrix of the American Laboratory Theatre), Mercedes de Acosta, Helen Lohmann, Irma Kraft...
...teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends???the blind, deaf, sick, poor, grieving. Over radio-station WEAF she now "hears" music by lightfingering a wooden sounding-board. Professor Pierre Villey, blind himself, called her a "dupe of words," characterized her esthetic "seeing-hearing" (by touch-vibration) as "a matter of autosuggestion rather than perception." William James...
...Bingham friends???old Guardsmen Smoot and Edge? tried to head off the inevitable with substitute resolutions, oblique and apologetic, which "disapproved" of such a transaction without specifically criticizing Senator Bingham. But the Senate, in stern self-righteous mood, rejected them...