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Protection from Drafts. His parents, John Hague, a blacksmith, and Margaret, came from Ulster's County Cavan _and settled in Jersey City's Horseshoe district (so named because the railroad tracks made a loop there). In a frame tenement house he grew up, a sickly child who became a strong and healthy hypochondriac. During his years of power, he rode on the hottest days with all his car windows closed tight to protect him from drafts. Vain, and fearful of age, he did not like to have photographs taken that showed his bald spot or his wrinkles...
...Sudden Need. In midweek, Adlai Stevenson found a sudden, anguished need for prayer. As he walked into his office in Chicago's Loop one morning, he was told that his youngest son, John Fell Stevenson, 19, had been seriously injured in a highway accident. On his way home from Harvard, where he is a sophomore, John was driving his father's 1955 Chevrolet sedan on U.S. Highway 20, just east of Goshen, Ind., with three fellow Harvard students as passengers. As he drove over a hill, a truck, passing another at 50 m.p.h., smashed head-on into...
...every match she gets lighted, till she herself manages to become the conquering flame. The story does nothing so genteel as unfold. It catapults and ricochets: characters bounce out of trapdoors, squeeze into closets, hide under tables, eavesdrop behind screens; boys dress up as girls and cab drivers loop with drink, identities are mistaken and purses mislaid. There is all the homey, cheerful pandemonium of a horse-and-buggy age whose inhabitants may have been inhibited but whose playwriting decidedly...
...million Fort Dearborn Project calls for the complete rebuilding of 150 acres near the downtown Loop district with apartments, government buildings, a branch of the University of Illinois and large parking facilities...
...that it was "to be called the Michael Reese Hospital for all time to come." Also they ruled "that the hospital be nonsectarian, that the sufferers, no matter of what religion or nationality, if found worthy and there be room, be admitted." The site, 29 blocks south of the Loop, was then on the lake shore and in the city's most fashionable residential area. But the district hit the skids, and wealthy residents moved to the near North Side. In the 1920s, mansions were cut up into tenements, populated mostly by poverty-stricken Negroes teeming in from...