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...family, his Cabinet, a few close friends. At the altar in cassock & surplice stood his old schoolmaster, Groton's Dr. Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody who had married him to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. From his heart, from the hearts of his little band of worshippers, from the heart of a stricken nation rose a wordless appeal for divine strength to right great ills. . . . The President-elect stood up in his pew, squared back his shoulders. As he walked out of St. John's, a brief streak of sunlight shot down upon him through grey wintry clouds...
...water, but Wall Street and other financial centres believed that the wave of failures that closed 84 banks last year-third largest number of closings in any State-had washed the situation clean. It was known that big Union Guardian Trust Co. had been weakened by heavy commitments in stricken Detroit real estate, that deposits had been seeping away. And until Governor Comstock retracted his first "unvarnished story" of a disagreement among Union Guardian's three big depositors (of whom two were not depositors) Michigan thought it knew...
...imagination reaches sadly back to his youth in another little town. Nostalgia gives way to intemperate anger when he thinks of the injustices he received at the hands of rich Hugo Barnstead. The telephone rings. The affluent Mr. Barnstead is in the hotel just across the street, stricken with toothache. When he appears for treatment there is considerable doubt whether the angry Biff, gas cap in hand, will ever let him out of the operating chair alive. There is a fadeback and the audience is presented with the case history...
...Bush's "automatic painting" started eleven years ago at the time of her mother's death. Grief stricken, she pondered suicide, suddenly felt an uncontrollable desire to paint...
Just as managing editors are lamenting the fact that the magic word technocracy no longer possesses that extra something--front page allurement--the inventive genius of the American mind conceives another startling idea for doctoring the ills of the stricken world. "Biocracy" is the name for it, and it is a rival to the technocratic cure...