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Carl Milles is 56, short, broad-shouldered, stocky, clean shaven. He has brown hair and big hands. With his big hands he likes to do sculpture of heroic size. He has prospered; his house is one of Sweden's showplaces. His wife is an Austrian who paints. They like to travel, particularly in the U. S. where they have many a friend and admirer. He teaches part of the year at Stockholm's Royal Akademie, goes to see Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf with whom he is intimate...
...realize her husband was dead, and afterwards, when they told her, she kept forgetting. Her children as you meet them first seem i depressingly small, middle-class Middle Western lot, but as you get to know them i tetter they grow to life size-not to heroic or tragic or grotesque proportions. Because Author Davis tries to tell what ,ldous Huxley calls the Whole Truth About his people there is no hero in his hook, no villain. Uncle Lincoln is a rhetorical sot and a nasty old man when drunk: but with his mother he is a different character...
...hood of Brooklyn Edison Employes is." Not all of the President's advisory committeemen were as opposed as he to direct Federal aid. Declared President William Green of the American Federation of Labor: "We'll find later that appropriations will have to be made. ... It will require heroic efforts on Mr. Gifford's part to prepare for the heavy demands that will come with the first frost. It will require many millions of dollars." Next year it is altogether possible that Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt will confront each other in the Presidential election. In such...
...their third fight. Petrolle won the first, in Manhattan last winter, by banging his right hand into the face of a McLarnin who had come into the ring poised, apparently, for one hard punch to precede his triumphant handspring. Their next fight was less exciting; McLarnin, who had seemed heroic in his defeat, dismayed his admirers by retreating around the ring and outpointing Petrolle with a cautious left...
...terror that the Kansas City Star is determined to maintain. ... I can prove that the Star has deliberately colored the news, has misrepresented the facts, and has indulged in wilful, slanderous lies. If there is no way to correct this condition peacefully then I propose to use very heroic methods. . . . The acts of the Kansas City Star and/or expressed in the acts of Governor Woodring, are flagrantly lawless, and are a grave threat to the credit and prosperity of the entire district which the Kansas City Star claims to serve. . . . We were told that it was the purpose...