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Whether or not Adlai Stevenson gets into the White House, he seems sure of a place in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Though his voice has been to Princeton, and his words occasionally sound Wilsonian, at other times they have the dry crack of a Will Rogers aphorism. Some samples...
When he was not working on a commission, he usually packed up his family and took to the road, gypsy fashion. Meanwhile, John's roster of famous subjects grew, e.g., Japan's Prince (later Emperor) Hirohito-"an inconspicuous young man attired in a navy blue suit"-Thomas Hardy...
Roth's acquaintance with well-known artists has given him some interesting footnotes to his pictures. Samples:
Hardly anyone except his fellow poets noted the fact or felt the loss when Ridgely Torrence died at 76 on Christmas Day, 1950. All the poems he ever published would fit in one small book. But he was admired as a poet, and loved as a friend, by Edwin Arlington...
"We have been slowly and gradually collecting samples of the chinaware and glassware with which the House was furnished. Monroe bought some very fine decanters and glasses to go with them, made of blue cut glass. Not a single piece of this purchase can be found anywhere . . .* We have no...