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Other members of the household are the cretinous twins Bert and Mert (Peter Whitney), their loony little sister (Jean Heather) and-thanks to the toxic ministrations of mad-scientist Hall-a phosphorescent Grandma (Mabel Paige). ("I glow, don't I?" she says proudly.) By her light MacMurray reads about granddaughter Bonnie's great bank robbery; as she dies, the old lady bequeaths him the tune and its doubletalked words which-to the proper person-will reveal the hiding place of $70,000 in bank loot. After that things get a little complicated...
Disastrous Mumps. Campus fashions were conservative in 1909, and Hamilton sophomores raged at Freshman Woollcott's "excessively wrinkled and bagged trousers, a misshapen corduroy coat, grimy sneakers . . . red fez with gilt tassel." He became the best-hated man on the campus. He wrote plays with such titles as Mabel, the Beautiful Shopgirl, and played the feminine leads himself. Sex-obsessed, he sat up nights reading Krafft-Ebing and Havelock Ellis, poring over accounts of the trial of Oscar Wilde. He fought every boy in sight, bought a .45-caliber revolver and talked sullenly of suicide. "It may well...
...water. "Imagine 150 American boys rescuing and transporting over 2,000 prisoners out of a territory surrounded by 6,000 Japs. We left behind us many graves filled with starved internees. . . . "Our Army men and officers certainly are angels. . . . Oh! how wonderful it is to be an American!" . . . MABEL F. RICE Whittier, Calif...
BOLTS OF MELODY-Emily Dickinson-edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham - Harper...
...Mabel Thorp Boardman, 80-odd, able, stately, longtime (25 years) secretary of the American Red Cross, who has watched the membership grow from 300 to some 30,000,000, retired (after 44 years) last week, received a Distinguished Service Medal (first one to be awarded by the Red Cross) and a citation from President Roosevelt for being the "inspirer" of the organization. Victorian Miss Boardman, one of Washington's top society hostesses, who looks amazingly like Great Britain's Queen Mary,* planned to write her memoirs...