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Things were tough all over. While he was away from home, Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr.'s eleven-room Maryland manse burned to the ground. Estimated loss: $100,000. John L. Lewis' maiden daughter, Kathryn, 35, who lives in wooded country not far from Sing Sing, N.Y., got a permit to keep a pistol...
...CHASTE MAIDEN ANSWERS MARVELL...
...Frank Morris, a well-dressed, belligerent landlady of Dallas who wanted all controls taken off. Said she: "I am fighting for freedom for enterprise. I am fighting for my children [one daughter, three grandchildren] and for their future." Asked Chairman Charles Tobey dryly: "Oh, tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you?" Mrs. Morris: "I am an only child...
...Thee" (as Teddy Roosevelt was known in the family) had relatively little to do with the family business. But Roosevelt & Son had plenty of the strenuous life. Founded by James I. Roosevelt (who later took his son Cornelius into partnership), the firm started out as a hardware shop in Maiden Lane, barely opened its doors before Manhattan was swept by yellow fever. The shop not only survived the epidemic but within a few years was so prosperous that it began dis counting notes for other merchants. This led to other financial activities, and the hardware business was finally abandoned...
Traubel's and Melchior's relationship is Falstaffian. In Die Walküre, when Traubel is left alone on stage, Melchior sometimes prances about the wings as a Rhine maiden in a grass skirt, to try to make her laugh. Once, when she leaned tenderly over his body on the couch in the last act of Tristan, in the scene where Tristan dies of wounds inflicted by a jealous rival, Melchior muttered: "Helena, hurry up the Liebestod (love death). I'm hungry and I need a beer...