tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1410124899543674832024-03-13T08:13:20.790-07:00Time TravelTIME TRAVEL. Links to the past. Keys to understanding those who have come before.John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.comBlogger419125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-86553775524792989492021-04-16T13:46:00.004-07:002021-04-18T14:54:57.432-07:00HvS | Hilda van Stockum Road to Damascus 1933. Letters to ERM.<p> <b style="color: #2a4b7e; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">Contents</b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">HILDA VAN STOCKUM’S ROAD TO DAMASCUS, 1933<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1</p>
<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">1933 Letters to ERM from Dublin<span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1</p>
<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px 11px;">May 21, 1933: Fr. Colquhoun, Sandymount Church, Evie Hone, Grene<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1</p>
<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px 11px;">May 25, 1933: Violet, Rachel, Fr. Colquhoun, Weatherhead<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2</p>
<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px 11px;">May 26, 1933: Fr. Colquhoun, Oxford Group<span> <span> </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3</p>
<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px 11px;">29 May 1933: Oxford Group<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>4</p>
<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px 11px;">2 June 1933: Commissions honest; exhibitions not<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5</p>
<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px 11px;">4 June 1933: Sandymount Church, Fr. Colquhoun<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6</p>
<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px 11px;">13 June 1933: Visit from Han and Hilda de Booy, Alfred Adler Talk<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>7</p>
<p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px 11px;">20 June 1933 Unfinished transcription<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span>9</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><i>May 21, 1933: Fr. Colquhoun, Sandymount Church, Evie Hone, Grene</i></b></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I have really found the church that is going to help me. You know I met Father Colquhoun. This Sunday I went to early communion. The church is about 3 quarters of an hour away and I ran most of it because I was late. The service was beautiful. All the things that irritate me in the ordinary church.of.Ireland service were left off. There were no loud voices and there was lots of quiet. The words were uttered in the rhythmic murmur of a Catholic priest and not pronounced with a painful attempt at "feeling." Then, we didn't get a silly little cube of bread from which crumbs drop between your fingers but a real holy wafer—with a picture of the Eucharist on it. Something leapt in me when I saw it, a happiness filled me which I can't explain.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Evie Hone was there and took me back in her car to breakfast in her place. The sun shone on the profusion of flowers and in my heart. Evie told me that the wife of Father Colquhoun married him before he was an Anglo-Catholic and that she is terribly against his church. It is a great tragedy. I promised to pray for her. Mother, Violet and I went to High mass there at 11.30. Evie had given me an Anglo-Catholic prayerbook and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">all</span> the devotions are in it! The Hail Mary, the Rosary and the Stations of the Cross! </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The High Mass was very beautiful. Father Colquhoun preached with strength and simplicity, but for the rest it was singing, burning candles and quiet times. Mother said it was the first time she felt reverent in a church and that she realised there was a side to God she knew nothing about. As for me, it was as if I were a starving babe and milk were slowly poured between my lips. Just think, I can have communion there <span style="text-decoration: underline;">every</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">day</span>! And I'm going to confession and to the retreat and I'm going to keep the fast days and novenas. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You see, I've surrendered again and again but it isn't enough. My own fault [? soul?] is not enough. I want the support of others. The Oxford Group here is so weak, I feel I have to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">give</span> there, but this church is going to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">feed</span> me. If you read Evelyn Underbill’s book, "The life of the Spirit and the life of today,” you'll understand more about it. Oh, I'm so happy. I may make the sign of the cross, I may have a rosary, oh, I'm so <span style="text-decoration: underline;">happy</span>.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">The Oxford group has had a quiet time about whom to send to Waterford and they have chosen Mother and me. So we're going next week-end in a couple of cars, great fun. Yesterday I had a lovely walk with David through the park. All the hawthorns were in bloom and we rested in a sunny little valley with bridal trees in a row. We had a heart to heart talk. David [Grene, went to University of Chicago] likes Pic [Gwynne] very much, thinks she is just the girl for Willem.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><i>May 25, 1933: Violet, Rachel, Fr. Colquhoun, Weatherhead </i></b></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I've heaps to tell you, it was quite an eventful day yesterday. First Father Colquhoun came to tea. Mother and Violet liked him extremely and we immediately started to talk about religion. I'm afraid I was rather irreverent in bits — but I made rather a good pun (though a wicked one). </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Rachel, Violet's friend, and I had had a discussion the day before about life after death. Rachel thought she would meet Jerome, her beloved there in the flesh, so to speak. She was indignant when I said did not believe I would live on in my present form, nor that I would be able to embrace you in Heaven. My idea of being sunk into God's reality and finding Him everything we found on earth and infinitely more, did not appeal to her. Afterwards I said to Violet that she would probably rush at Christ as soon as she'd entered Heaven, calling "Jerome! Jerome!" and she would never even look at the poor soul answering to that name. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We discussed this question with Father Colquhoun and, he professed to lean towards my vision of Heaven. He said we ought to try even on earth to love God as manifested in people. After all, a lot of our possessive love is self-love. But he thought we might retain more of our individuality than I believed. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">"Oh, yes," I said casually. "If I meet a piece of God which is very like mother I'll know it's her." </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Here Father Colquhoun smiled and said: "That's extraordinary, isn't it? A piece of God! A piece of the Infinite." </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So, slap-boom, I said: "Obviously a piece which passes all understanding!" </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I’m afraid he looked non-plussed. He is an absolute dear, I think he likes having me in his church. I will have to go to confession and I like that but some things in the service still stick in my throat. I'll have to talk about them and get more light. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We heard Weatherhead speak in the Wesleyan church on Stephen's Green. It was wonderful. We went there very early and took seats where we could have a good look at his face. The hall was packed, heaps of Church of Ireland, Oxford Group and B. U. people were there, also your friend Ginger Darling. And down below we saw Jan [HvS’s younger brother, at Trinity]. He had come of his own accord because he liked Weatherhead's book, <i>Psychology in Service of the Soul</i>, so much.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When Weatherhead appeared there was a hush. He must be nearing forty but he looks like a lad of twenty — slight and tall with a dark head formed like Jan's and a long narrow face with beautiful starry eyes. His whole face is bathed in spiritual light. Then he began to pray. His voice was like violin music. After some hymns and the first chapter of St. Paul to the Corinthians he started to speak. I can't possibly convey the charm of his words, the boyish way he gesticulated and the sincerity behind his words. He spoke of the power of God which is manifested more in the freedom he allows us than in displays like a thunderstorm. Afterwards he prayed and the congregation was mouse-still.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Afterwards I had a long talk with Jan. Weatherhead had moved him deeply. He ackknowledged that he had tried to approach God too much intellectually and he is now going to pray.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">This morning I went to 6.30 High Mass at Sandymount and had communion. The discipline of daily communion is excellent but I feel some forms in the service are rather archaic. After Weatherhead's sermon I winced to see Christ held up as a sacrifice like Abraham but how can we offer Christ, when we ourselves have killed Him?</p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><i>May 26, 1933: Fr. Colquhoun, Oxford Group</i></b></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I've been to confession today. I was very nervous but it was beautiful. Father Colquhoun reminds me very much of a saint. He has a beautiful, loving atmosphere around him and I did feel strongly a spiritual help coming from the absolution. I cried like anything after it and felt as though I'd been washed clean. Now I walk every day the hour’s walk past the sea to the church at Sandymount and take H. Communion. It's so much easier to think of Christ and serve Him when you have a definite thing to do every day. Otherwise we so easily step back into the old ways. It's funny, since the confession I feel as though some queer power of love is being released in me. I feel I'm going to grow through the sacraments. Intellectually I'm not quite clear about them yet but I feel that will come, it's the humble acceptance and practice that counts.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Our Oxford Group is my discipline and my cross. I like the ladies in it and they all seem sincere but they are so different from myself that it really taxes my strength. But that is a good test of my charity and devotion are released through the church. Yesterday, in the cinema with Willem and Violet, I got frightened at the picture, which seemed full of the horrors of life. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then the cross suddenly drew near and I got a glimpse of something. My heart began to sing a hymn of love, big gulfs of strength were poured into me, all in a crowded cinema with cigarette smoke and organ-din. Later it faded but these moments are more and more frequent. I'm beginning to hope — to hope — you see it takes practice to draw near to God. Some of these Christians seem to think: surrender - Hups - guidance, hups - convert others - hups - and all is well. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But to me it seems a more laborious process. Before I can change others I must first change more myself and certainly have a firmer grip of God. Unless you have a selfless love for God He can't use you but that's not so easy, you can't give it to yourself. But you can pray and live a sacramental life and then God will not let you thirst in vain. I'm so happy.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I've been to the Oxford Group meeting in Waterford this week-end. It was very hectic. We left here at about 2 and arrived there at 5.30. We had tea, quiet time, supper and a group meeting. There were many people invited and we all shared something. I said little for the more sharing I hear, the less words I think necessary. Just that it is a good thing to point out that it is sin which keeps us from God and not God's lack of interest. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There were a lot of old gentlemen with beards there who looked like pious prophets, but I suppose their beards hid sinful hearts. I don't think the meeting was very exciting. The next morning I went to early mass (I have to go to mass every Sunday since I joined the Anglo-Catholic church) and was irritated by the rather vulgar atmosphere, not like some RC Churches in Dublin. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I came back we had breakfast and Quiet Time and then we all went to a Quaker meeting. It was rather interesting the Quaker idea is very like that of the Oxford Group. But dear me! To sit quiet for an hour in a musty hall when the sun is shining and the birds twittering! I thought it an ordeal! I think their spiritual ideal lacks the humility of accepting our human limitations. I was homesick for my little Sandymount church. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Hilda Marsh came in and was delighted to see us. Mother and I went with her to her house. She lives in the school head's house with a lovely garden behind it and a way through to the school ground and the school. We had our meals with the school children in the dining room and Mother made them all laugh telling of my pranks of long ago. Hilda didn't seem altogether happy. Her husband seems kind but unresponsive and I feel she is rather lost in the school curriculum. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Sunday Afternoon meeting of the Oxford Group was rather good - though Mrs. Lamb led it and Mother and I both think she is not quite cured yet. She talks and talks and talks. No one else has a chance. Yet I like her. Mr. Pit did a grand thing. An enemy of his was at the meeting and at the end he explained this and how he had acted wrongly towards this man and advanced with outstretched hand to make it up. The man hardly responded, very ungracious, but it was grand to see Mr. Pit. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When we went home at last we were all dead tired. We sang hymns most of the way. Mother is rather upset by the Group. The people in it disapprove of her because she does not believe in the atonement. I'm afraid our group is not what it should be. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">So I've decided, especially since you've encouraged me, to spend the rest of my money for Violet's portrait on going to the Oxford Group meeting in Oxford with Mother. I've another commission from Mrs. O' Connor, she is delighted with the picture of herself— thinks it's the best thing I've done. But she is going down to the South this week, as her husband has been transferred to Cork. So she has invited me to stay at her place in Cork and do a picture of herself and husband there. She has a huge park with a lake and a river. It'll be fun. She invited me for the whole month of July.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Here life is jogging on. Mrs. Conner’s portrait is getting good. It's the kind of portrait that make people take notice. Very big with draped curtains, satin chair and big landscape in the background. We had the first really nice Oxford Group meeting in our house Wednesday evening. It is mixed and I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">do</span> think one needs <span style="text-decoration: underline;">mass</span> [?].</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They all were delighted with my work and Mrs. Lamb is thinking of giving me a commission to do her daughter. Mother [Olga Emily Boissevain van Stockum] is now converted to the Anglo-Catholic Church. I believe it will do her a lot of good. She is losing her fear of the supernatural. Aunt Hilda and uncle Han [de Booy; Hilda is Olga’s sister] are coming over in the middle of June.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It will be great fun. Little Christie Coyle is going to have her first communion on Saturday. Mainie Jellett and I had a discussion on art today. We came to the conclusion that the only decent way to live, for an artist, is to live by commissions —- that exhibitions are of the Devil. Fancy making a lot of work on chance that someone might like it, and then show it like a pavement artist! I feel lovely when I do work for Mrs. Conner, knowing that I am fulfilling a demand and am worthwhile.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We also had a discussion on modern art. It seems that the latest abstract paintings are very like close-up photographs of serge or corduroy, so we both think the end will be that the canvas is left in its maiden beauty and admired for its own sake [Yes, that was the end… of the beginning—JTM]. We talked about the future of abstract painting. Mainie thinks it will be useful for decorating modern architecture. I agree with her, only modern architects hate their creations being decorated. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">She said it is such nonsense, people saying they don't "understand" modern art—for they don't understand old-fashioned art either. I replied that art is not only for connoisseurs. My mother and our nurse had both an admiration for Dostoyevsky but on different levels. Mother understood D.’s astounding insight into spiritual realities and Miss Moonch thought he wrote thrilling who-done-its. Old masters always do, sometimes, to me but there are so many people who don't understand it at all. Mainie agreed that abstract painting will never supersede natural work.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On Saturday morning Christie got her first communion. She looked lovely in the clothes I knitted and her sister and I went with her. I brought her a rosary, I hope she'll use it. The family is not very religious.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Conners came for lunch that day and admired all my pictures. They are very appreciative. From three to seven I had a retreat at Sandymount Church. That was lovely. Father Colquhoun is really a first-rate Peron and his addresses are wonderful. I started being very sleepy—getting up at 5.30 every day does make one seedy after lunch — but at the end of the retreat I was wide awake and happy as a lark. Father C.’s last sermon was very useful and to the point— it was about spiritual progress. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">His first one had been about "faith" and his second on conversion. He started his last one saying that our first conversion does mean a turning of the Will towards God but does not mean the highest spiritual grace. He said it is only through long growing towards God that we attain real spiritual heights and therefore he was going to give me some hints as to what we must do:</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I - Self-examination. This has to be done every evening but need never become morbid since we would find, besides faults, also the beneficient working of the Holy Spirit in us. It need not take long but was necessary as a daily exercise. It would lead to continual penitence, which is an attitude of the soul and not a momentary emotion but self-knowledge, without which no one can grow.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">II - Mortification. This, he said, is no morbid thing either. Every athlete who wants to attain something has to practice it. It means the emptying of self. Without discipline the soul is of no use to God. There are two kinds or mortification, external and internal. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A - Avoidance of sin - and its occasions, which is by no means easy and will result in bearing a real cross, </p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">B - Effort to fill our soul with the opposite virtue, for the Devil is only banished by the presence of the Holy Spirit. </p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">C - External mortification, which means the mortification of the senses. The example he gave was that of sight. He said we had to learn to see what was truly significant and to turn our eyes away from mere distraction or we would become prey to senseless curiosity. This would lead to true observation which is attending to the significant. We must have out attention under control. </p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">D - Mortification of the tongue. Of course this would not be necessary if we were wholly charitable in our hearts but as long as we are imperfect it is necessary that we should realise our responsibilities and not say hastily things of which we would only become ashamed or harm others with. The best way to overcome this is to make a habit to speak as though in the presence of God. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then there is the interior mortification of heart and mind, to make the will united with the Will of God, the response to the guidance of God, the intention to abandon immediately for the love of God whatever is evil or dangerous. </p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A - Mortification of thought. By making God and God's things the centre of our interest. It is impossible to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">prevent</span> wrong suggestions or imaginations but it <span style="text-decoration: underline;">is</span> possible to reject them. </p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">B - Mortification of desire. Mortifying our natural attractions and aversions; our hopes, fears, depression, anger, etc. which drive us into sin and which come from lack of mort. of desire. We must realise that our life is supernatural which must involve mortification of instinctive desires. All desires can be sublimated to the love of God and to do that means the mortification of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">self</span>. </p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">C - Mortification of judgement; it is generally warped by prejudice and peculiarities. Judgement is only right if it is in accord with God's will. </p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">D - Detachment which means the acceptance from the hands of God. Any suffering and troubles which may happen to us. </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And then, he said, there are three last things: 1 prayer, 2 meditation, 3 sacraments.</p>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Prayer. We must pray without ceasing, with perseverance. </li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span>Meditation. We must set aside a definite time each day for meditation.</li>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Don't you think this good advice? </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I am discovering Thomas à Kempis.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Things are developing here -<b> Grene has proposed to Violet</b>. I hope she accepts him.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><i>13 June 1933: Visit from Han and Hilda de Booy, Alfred Adler Talk</i></b></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Thank you ever so much for your last letter, you are a dear. I like the way in which you are giving away our children before we've yet properly got them. I have already given you permission to give away any of my worldly possessions which you may think fit.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mine are yours and yours are mine, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness in health, till death do us part, amen.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I'm glad that you approve of my Anglo-Catholic faith. Mother has made her confession too, and she is terribly happy. Of course I'll go to Calvary [Episcopal Church, in Chelsea, New York City?] with you every Sunday. I want the Anglican church for daily Holy Communion, which is becoming a necessity to me, and for confession.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I enclose a letter from the American couple that had tea with us. Who knows, we might meet them again!</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I have to tell you something very sad about the boy I wrote to you about some months ago. The one that told us about that self-governing school. We had not seen him since, for he did not like walking, and mother did not know how to entertain him. Jan could not get on with him, because all he was interested in was Jazz music, motor racing, etc. He used to tear along the roads on his motorbike and two days ago he smashed against a motorvan and got killed on the spot.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I heard it I felt terribly guilty, for I had forgotten him in our prayers, and mother felt the same because she had not invited him again. It is so terrible never to be able to make up for an omission like that.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I'm beginning to believe in evil spriits, and I believe that it was them that Christ delivered us from, when we, through our foolish sinfulness had given them power over us. I believe the Cross was Christ's victory over Satan and that if we make the sign of the Cross when we are tempted the evil goes. What otherwise do the words Christ spoke: forgive them for they know not what they do! mean, if it is not that we in our weakness have played into the hands of Satan far more terrible than we in our blindness can see? </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And, as Leslie Weatherhead points out, if it was not something supernatural, something far greater than any of us can comprehend what happened to the Cross, why did Christ shrink so from the ordeal? Has not Socrates died calmly, and have not countless martyrs gone singing to their death? If you feel God not quite near yet, try the Anglican way with confession and communion, it is helping me where my own efforts have grievously failed. I'm really beginning to feel Christ growing in me.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Oom [Uncle] Han [de Booy] and tante Hilda have arrived, and it is such fun! They are greatly in favour of the groups, and tante HIlda is thrilled to witness one of our meetings on Wednesday.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They went in raptures over my story (I sent away the pictures today, with all the new black and white pictures. Take care that none get lost, some of them are quite small.) Tante Hilda was also very interested to see the work of my National School [Dublin] pupils, which has progressed amazingly. She is going with me on Saturday to see them work. I will enquire about those scholarships or whatever they are. </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Dearest, let’s both hold our [first] anniversary of marriage [June 27] in a special way. Let’s spend it in prayer.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Later. Pic Gwynn and I were walking in the coronation plantation yesterday where we picnicked with tante Hilda and Oom Han. She said something very true and significant. She said: “Believers and unbelievers both err in trying to pin God down. You can't pin Him down.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We also talked about my father [Captain Abram van Stockum]. She said if anyone made you believe in supernatural values it was he. Pic is a darling. She can quite understand and speak Dutch now with such an adorable accent! </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tante Hilda told us very interesting things yesterday. Pic took us out in her car and Tante HIlda told us that Alfred Adler, the famous psychoanalyst [noted especially for his theory of the inferiority complex—JTM] has been visiting Holland. One afternoon he devoted to explaining cases of difficult children, written down on pieces of paper by the parents. Tante HIlda says it was marvelous what he could deduce from a few difficulties, dreams, etc. The whole character of the parents and all sorts of facts which weren't mentioned. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tante Hilda treated Ot to this lecture and Ot sent in a paper with difficulties about Tompie and Elsbeth. It seems Tompie is developing all sorts of queer traits and Elsbeth is also difficult. Tante Hilda says there was an awful silence while Adler explained the case. He said: “This is a very nice little boy, gentle and good of full impulses but he has been spoilt by his mother when he was very small and is now jealous of his little sister. But there is no harm in him. And now I must say something terrible - something cruel. The Mother <span style="text-decoration: underline;">beats</span> this little boy.” </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tante Hilda says a shiver went through the audience the way he said it: "Why does she beat such a boy? There is no necessity for it. Who should be beaten?" And then the whole audience shouted: "The Mother!”</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tante Hilda says it is awful the way Tompie is beaten and the senseless way he is punished when he has done nothing very wrong. She says she went on her knees to Ot once, telling her that the boy was not the kind of boy who should be beaten. Tom generally does the beating but Ot allows and encourages it. I was horrified, aren't you? </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">Adler said: "And then the parents excuse the beating of their children by saying the children want it. Of course they want it! It's often the only way in which they get undivided attention. When will parents stop punishing their children, realising <span style="text-decoration: underline;">it</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">does</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">help</span>? The only way you can bring up a child is by eliciting his cooperation - not making a slave of him. In the end it is only the parent who will be the slave.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><i>20 June 1933 Unfinished transcription</i></b></p><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-85273764933118073502021-04-15T22:17:00.002-07:002021-04-15T23:37:17.498-07:00WOODIN | Tum Tiddily Tycoon, MusicApril 16, 2021—<span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica;">Music: Tum Tiddily Tycoon</span><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666464; font-family: "Helvetica Light"; font-size: 14px;"><i>Time</i>, Monday, Jan. 26, 1931</span>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>The following excellent text could be lost to researchers if I don't post it here because the first word was scanned in "Turn" instead of "Tum" and therefore cannot be found by a searchbot looking for Tum Tiddily... </i><span style="font-size: 14px;">This is a 1931 article about Will Woodin's music:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Things generally known about William Hartman Woodin of Manhattan: He is president of American Car & Foundry Co., largest, most potent railway equipment plant in the world; board chairman of American Locomotive Co.; a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and of 18 corporations. He was one of the potent Wet Republicans who marched to the aid of Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928. He has been a decorative member of the Mayor's committee for the entertainment of distinguished visitors. His collection of U. S. gold pieces is the finest there is; he wrote a standard volume on the subject (<i>The United States Pattern— Trial and Experimental Features</i>). He has a rare collection of rare books. A thing little known about William Hartman Woodin until last week: He writes music. He has "never known such a thrill" as when his father gave him, a shop hand at the family foundry, $500 and his fellow workers congratulated him, for molding and annealing singlehanded a perfect car wheel. But in later life he has obtained minor thrills composing songs. Last year the name "Will Woodin" was given as the composer of a bookful of children's jingles. And last week William Hartman Woodin was the name listed as composer of four unpretentious musical impressions which Conductor Henry Hadley's Manhattan Orchestra played in St. George's Church. Fairly descriptive were the titles "Chinese Magic," "The Unknown Soldier" (inspired by a monument in Budapest, guarded always by a soldier on horseback), "Souvenir de Montmarte," "Tartar Dance." Composer Woodin relates that it was in the 1880's, when he, 18, was recovering from a throat operation in Vienna, spending his time in the Volksgarten listening to Johann Strauss conduct his own waltzes, that he became "really musical." As a child, piano-scales had bored him, so he had taken up violin, then the banjo and guitar. Vienna and Strauss made him want to know more. He began seriously to study the zither, laid a good musical foundation. No matter how busy making wheels & cars, William Woodin always found time to sing his children to sleep, playing his accompaniments on the guitar or zither. Many of the melodies were original and the book into which they found their way last autumn was called Raggedy Ann's Sunny Songs, lyrics and drawings by Johnny Gruelle, creator of Raggedy Ann. Some of the lyrics: Little Wooden Willie, People thought him silly 'Cause he had a knot hole In the middle of his head. So he put a hat on And since he has that on Folks who called him silly, Think he's very wise instead. Oh the tired old horse can scarcely drag his feet, If he gets much worse he'll be too tired to eat. He's so old and stiff, he isn't worth his keep, He would go to bed but he'd be too tired to sleep. There was a time so I am told He ran away with Grandpa Cole, He smashed the buggy on the pole, But that was long ago. Now the tired old horse is happy in his way, For he dreams he still can hear his master say, "Tum tid-di-ly um bum, Giddap!" Composer Woodin has six grandchildren for whom he has built a playroom on the top floor of his Manhattan penthouse. He tries out his children's songs on them, finds them frank critics. Concerning his grown-up music and its performance, Composer Woodin is modest, hopes people will not think he considers himself a budding Beethoven.</p>
<p style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,769498,00.html">http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,769498,00.html</a></span></p><div><br /></div>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-90429542487135010292021-03-28T01:26:00.018-07:002021-03-29T10:35:06.619-07:00WALLY VAN HALL | The Resistance Banker<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0K0LtLk5BDI/YGAoeyfSVaI/AAAAAAAAQoU/8EojRtbqaSE19-8QljfcLSwy37_2WMOgACLcBGAsYHQ/s808/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-28%2Bat%2B2.53.26%2BAM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="508" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0K0LtLk5BDI/YGAoeyfSVaI/AAAAAAAAQoU/8EojRtbqaSE19-8QljfcLSwy37_2WMOgACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-28%2Bat%2B2.53.26%2BAM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tilly and Wally van Hall,<br />married, March 1, 1932</td></tr></tbody></table>March 28, 2021—I have seen "The Resistance Banker" three times. The first time was in Zaandam, in April 2018, a month after it first came out in Holland. It was then available only in Dutch with English subtitles. It was a great movie even when seen in Dutch. I was impressed.<div><br /><div>It was the most-watched movie in Holland in 2018. It won the Dutch equivalent of the Oscar, the Golden Calf, and it grossed $4 million, which is good for a movie in Dutch.<br /><p></p><p>The main heroes are Walraven (Wally) van Hall and—in real life and in the movie—his wife Tilly den Tex van Hall. Netflix dubbed the Dutch movie in English. It is available to anyone with a Netflix account here: <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80244019">https://www.netflix.com/title/80244019</a>.</p><p>I watched the Netflix version twice this week, once alone and two days later again with my wife Alice. This movie is excellent for two kinds of people: (1) Those who think they know a lot about World War II, and (2) Those who don't. It gives a vivid idea of what Resistance in Holland meant, and this is not something that World War II buffs generally know much about.</p><p>The movie has great value as a reminder of what the Greatest Generation in Europe faced on the home front—for Europeans, World War II in Europe was not just, or even primarily, about the battlefields. As a military force, the Dutch did not last long. The Nazi Occupation took them by surprise (they had been promised the right to remain neutral, as the Dutch were nominally in World War I) and the war played out in homes and workplaces. </p><p><b>A True Hero</b></p><p>There were many who would like to be remembered as heroes, but the documented heroes are few in number. Mostly people put their heads down and just tried to survive, which was not easy. Many collaborated in one way or another, usually because they were afraid of their lives and the lives of their families. A few felt they had to do their duty as Dutch citizens, which meant resisting the Nazi occupation.</p><p>Wally and his brother Gijs van Hall succeeded in raising today's equivalent of one billion dollars. He did this in part by counterfeiting Treasury bonds and substituting the fake bonds for real ones in the vaults of the Dutch central bank. The proceeds of the sale of the real bonds went to Resistance groups and people entitled to pensions and salaries that the Nazi government would not pay. He also borrowed money from prominent Dutch people, giving them out-of-date stock certificates or one-guilder notes, keeping track of the numbers so they could be redeemed after the war. </p><p>When the Queen returned to Holland after the war, she repaid every obligation. All the money was accounted for. We know all this because of the meticulously documented work of the late Dr. Louis (Loe) de Jong (1914-2005). He wrote—in Dutch only, alas—a formidable 14-volume history of World War II in Holland. </p><p>Dr. de Jong was not given to lavish praise of many of the Dutch Resistance leaders. But because the <i>Nationaal Steun Fonds</i> (National Support Fund, NSF) enabled so many other activities of the Dutch Resistance, de Jong considered Wally to be Holland's <i>most important underground worker</i> during the war. </p><p>In his Erasmus Lectures on the Dutch Resistance given at Harvard in 1988, de Jong was cautious. He quoted Dutch historian Johan Huizinga: "History, like good sherry, should be dry" (de Jong, <i>Erasmus Lectures</i>, Harvard, 1988, 30). However, on the subject of Wally's stewardship of Resistance funds, de Jong is sweet:<br /></p><blockquote class="tr_bq">[T]he underground movement in the Netherlands was unique insofar as it numbered one secret organization whose sole task was to collect the money needed to keep all other groups in action and to provide financial support to many of the thousands in hiding. [...] The total expenses of this financial organization alone amounted to a [1988] value of perhaps $500 million [i.e., more than $1 billion in 2021 using the BLS inflation calculator], and when liberation came, all expenses were accounted for, not a single dime having been misappropriated, and all the people and companies from whom money had been borrowed were repaid by the government (de Jong, 46-47).</blockquote><p>Coming from a dry historian who is careful with his words, such high praise of Wally is astounding.<br /></p><p>The Dutch put "The Resistance Banker" up for an Oscar as the best foreign film of 2018. It did not win. At the end of this post I suggest a few reasons why not, and why the world needs an American version of the movie.</p><p><b>The Resistance and the Holocaust</b></p><p>The horror of the Holocaust in Holland is told in the movie in three ways:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>First, near the opening of the movie, Wally's fellow banker Isaak Meijer, who is Jewish, misses an appointment with him. Wally is concerned and walks to Isaak's house. He finds Isaak hanged and his wife and daughter dead in front of cups of tea. On the table is the Occupation's instructions for them to leave their home and turn off utilities. Their house has been taken over, as happened to all Jewish Amsterdammers not living in the confined ghetto. Knowing what they faced, the family chose to end their lives. At this point, Wally is recruited by a Resistance leader with a naval background to raise money for Dutch merchant-marine pensioners whose stipends have been cut off.</li><li>Later, a freight car filled with people passes a passenger car. These are prisoners headed for the deadly concentration camps. The passengers, realistically, averted their eyes. Tragically, social-service records in Holland were kept by religion, since welfare was distributed through church institutions. This made it easy for SS trackers in Holland to pursue their genocidal mission. In other occupied countries, the Wehrmacht was in charge; they were more interested in waging war than racial extermination. </li><li>The movie alludes briefly at the end to how much Wally and the Resistance did to hide or find safe passage for Jewish targets. He received a posthumous Yad Vashem award after the war, and these have not been given out lightly.</li></ul><div>What did the Resistance do about the Holocaust? It found hiding places for some Jewish families. It forged papers for them. It managed to get some out via train to Belgium and France; they had a connection in Paris who would meet the trains. It provided information to the Jewish community. It bombed record centers where the Nazi administration was preparing its systematic genocidal program. It targeted Dutch collaborators and S.S. officers. These are some of the activities of the Resistance that Wally van Hall's money financed. The total amount that Wally obtained was one hundred million Dutch guilders, or half a billion euros in today's money.</div><p></p><p>The moment when Wally is captured in a roundup of Resistance workers is economically captured by his son Aad falling out of a tree and Tilly dropping a plate. Tilly is credibly played by Fockeline Ouwerkerk. Wally's brother Gijsbert ("Gijs") van Hall is well portrayed as less brave than Wally, but someone who came through for him in many ways. Gijs survived to tell the story and was elected Mayor of Amsterdam after the war. </p><p><b>Family Connections</b></p><p>When I was in Holland in 2015 and 2018, I visited with two of Wally's three children (Adrienne, Aad and Mary-Ann). All three are now deceased. The two older ones, Adrienne and Wally, are shown at the beginning of "The Resistance Banker." All of them are shown as children in a photo of Wally and Tilly and family, posted by a Florida-based blogger named Toritto. <a href="https://toritto.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/banker-to-the-resistance-walraven-van-hall/">https://toritto.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/banker-to-the-resistance-walraven-van-hall/</a>. I mention also in my 2015 visit with a van Hall daughter relative, Ellen van Wurpel. <a href="https://inezmb.blogspot.com/2016/03/boissevain-american-descendants-of.html">https://inezmb.blogspot.com/2016/03/boissevain-american-descendants-of.html</a>.</p><p>Also, I have previously posted about Tilly van Hall. Her maiden surname was den Tex (in Dutch it would be hyphenated with the husband's name first: Tilly van Hall-den Tex). My 2015 post about Tilly is here: <a href="http://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2015/07/anna-mathilde-tilly-den-tex-1907-1988.html">http://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2015/07/anna-mathilde-tilly-den-tex-1907-1988.html</a>. It shows, with help from my cousin Charles <i>Leidschendam</i> Boissevain, also alas deceased, how the children of Charles Boissevain the newspaper editor, my grandmother Olga's father, are related in multiple ways to the van Halls and den Texes, on both sides of the marriage.</p><p>My mother, Hilda van Stockum, had many Dutch relatives who wrote to her about Wally and Tilly van Hall. These letters were used when she wrote her two books on the Dutch Resistance and the Holocaust, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Winged-Watchman-Living-History-Library/dp/1883937078/ref=asc_df_1883937078">The Winged Watchman</a> </i>(Farrar Straus 1962 and Bethlehem Books/Ignatius Press, 1995) and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Borrowed-House-Hilda-van-Stockum/dp/1930900899">The Borrowed House</a></i> (Farrar Straus 1975 and Purple House Press, 2016).</p><p><b>Need for an American Version of the Movie</b></p><p>As someone said to me, "for a Dutch movie, this is a great production." I agree. Also, to my mind, Netflix did an excellent post-production job getting the film ready for an American audience, although there were a few lapses, as when the American-English-dubbed voice of Wally (played by Barry Atsma) refers to Jaap (pronounced Yaap in Dutch) using the English pronunciation of "J".</p><p>Here is a review that suggests some reasons. The first half is a bit slow in building, and for an American audience the movie might be puzzling because the things Americans remember most about World War II are the U.S. military intervention and the encounters such as the Normandy landing. The concept of Nazis being put in charge of institutions, and how that works out in practice, might be more understandable in 2021 than it was in 2018, as we better understand the extent to which a misinformation campaign can capture people's minds. <a href="https://readysteadycut.com/2018/09/12/the-resistance-banker-review/">https://readysteadycut.com/2018/09/12/the-resistance-banker-review/</a>.</p><p>The Dutch movie misses the full potential of the story for American and British film audience. It would be helpful to elaborate on connections that the historical characters had with the rest of the world. For example, Wally and Gijs went to work for Wall Street in the period before and after the Crash of 1929. This is not mentioned and is a glaring omission. Imagine what that must have been like for them. How much they must have learned about downsides to the stock market...</p><p>Something about that year could usefully substitute for the fuzzy-boat images that the Dutch version uses—they might be heart-warming for some, but for others they might seem lazy. A blockbuster American feature film could be made out of this idea of a banker risking his life to help the Resistance, under the nose of the Nazis. The Anglo-American view of bankers as benignly addicted to acquisition could do with this portrait of someone at a bank selflessly serving his country. I posted something along these lines in 2018: <a href="http://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2018/05/wally-van-hall-movie-in-english.html">http://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2018/05/wally-van-hall-movie-in-english.html</a>.</p></div></div>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-85290311924223230202021-03-24T19:54:00.004-07:002021-03-26T19:05:08.374-07:00ICAO | 75th Anniversary<p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mYCwhb63kZ0/YF6RhTyJfVI/AAAAAAAAQoE/HmIgv-O9ndY_Lm-wQe7RM_wOlm_OoLHHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1252/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-26%2Bat%2B9.58.45%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="1252" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mYCwhb63kZ0/YF6RhTyJfVI/AAAAAAAAQoE/HmIgv-O9ndY_Lm-wQe7RM_wOlm_OoLHHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-26%2Bat%2B9.58.45%2BPM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ICAO logo, introduced 1955.</td></tr></tbody></table>March 24, 2021— It's the 75th Anniversary of the creation of the International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO. </p><p>My Dad's work for the United Nations began with his being sent to San Francisco for the formation of the U.N. in 1945. He represented the Bureau of the Budget. He had worked for FDR since 1933, the entire FDR term. One of the first acts of the U.N. was to create a conference in Chicago to establish a U.N. organization concerned with airline safety. </p><p>ICAO was set up originally as PICAO (Provisional ICAO). Spike Marlin was the Secretary of PICAO. At Chicago they selected the location of the new agency, Montreal. They picked this city for three reasons, my Dad told me:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Montreal didn't have a U.N. agency and it wanted one.</li><li>IATA, the airline fare-setting cooperative, was already based in Montreal.</li><li>Montreal is bilingual, English and French, and this somewhat mollified the francophones, who were annoyed that only English would be used to communicate with air traffic control towers. (In Quebec, local airlines still use both languages.) The two-language rule was overridden in the case of airline communications because one language was hard enough for pilots to learn.</li></ul><p></p><p>Spike went to work for the organization when it was created and the family of six moved from Washington to Montreal in 1946. He worked for the agency for 17 years, until 1963. "I gave them the best years of my life," he said. He directed the ICAO's technical assistance program, which accounted for 1,500 staffers of the 1,700 employed by the agency.</p><p>From ICAO, he went to Geneva to become the third-ranking official at the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees. He was in that post for two years, and then went to work for the U.S. Department of State as Director of International Recruitment in the International Organizations bureau. His job was to find Americans to fill U.N.posts coming vacant. </p><p>When he retired from the State Department he was recruited by the AARP to create the International Federation on Aging, to do research on and coordinate national policies about the problems of an aging world. </p><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5px;"><a href="https://my.faa.gov/focus/articles/2020/12/AVS_FLYER_AVS_ICAO.html">https://my.faa.gov/focus/articles/2020/12/AVS_FLYER_AVS_ICAO.html</a></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Lm1yh9Sbtk/YFv4X_wG9kI/AAAAAAAAQn8/mkD2k6MEEJQUBtfre5b340Kg1dgjZwX3ACLcBGAsYHQ/s888/ERM%2BCongo%2BAirport.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="884" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Lm1yh9Sbtk/YFv4X_wG9kI/AAAAAAAAQn8/mkD2k6MEEJQUBtfre5b340Kg1dgjZwX3ACLcBGAsYHQ/w637-h640/ERM%2BCongo%2BAirport.png" width="637" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Story in the <i>Montreal Star </i>about Spike's work on keeping <br />open the Leopoldville airport, 1950s.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5px;"><br /></span></p>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-58167325496841569972021-03-24T19:13:00.006-07:002021-04-12T21:16:03.213-07:00WESTMOUNT | Lansdowne Avenue, 1950s<p>Marlin family photos from the 1950s. Did Peggy come over from Itreland? Did the VW bus come over from France? This would have been in 1955 or 1956.</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jEcH7BunB8s/YFvwAm56ZhI/AAAAAAAAQnk/ZJavdxxJy6Q3JHH0ZWb8EvVMQzRxk7WYACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/With%2BVolkswagen%2BBus%2B053.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1182" data-original-width="2048" height="368" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jEcH7BunB8s/YFvwAm56ZhI/AAAAAAAAQnk/ZJavdxxJy6Q3JHH0ZWb8EvVMQzRxk7WYACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h368/With%2BVolkswagen%2BBus%2B053.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr Beausang, Muirreann Beausang, Spike, Hilda, Lis, X, Peggy, Y</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span></span><p></p><a name='more'></a><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qqvb8mpu3XY/YFvwAAsq6ZI/AAAAAAAAQng/mAEuKZLYH1Y6NmOlMsFcGlcPHUS7sHhugCLcBGAsYHQ/s2880/Westmount%252C%2BChristmas%2B1958%2B017.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1977" data-original-width="2880" height="438" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qqvb8mpu3XY/YFvwAAsq6ZI/AAAAAAAAQng/mAEuKZLYH1Y6NmOlMsFcGlcPHUS7sHhugCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h438/Westmount%252C%2BChristmas%2B1958%2B017.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L to R Alan Jones, John, Lis, Ben's sister Muriel, Rupetr Giddy (?), Randal</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K65HSxnjdUc/YFvv_ojEI9I/AAAAAAAAQnc/ztRs3mIW86ACCSLF9RXd1irtqy-EWV9NgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2888/Westmount%252C%2B1958%2B015.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1806" data-original-width="2888" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K65HSxnjdUc/YFvv_ojEI9I/AAAAAAAAQnc/ztRs3mIW86ACCSLF9RXd1irtqy-EWV9NgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h400/Westmount%252C%2B1958%2B015.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rupert Giddy (?), Hilda, Fr. Alvaro, Randal, Lis, Ben's sister Muriel, John, <br />Alan Jones, Spike</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nsRPOslDQD8/YFvv_Md6eHI/AAAAAAAAQnY/f8OScBvdWxwjOgrrqSz7UImhpp7wqs6EgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2846/Peggy%2B027.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2241" data-original-width="2846" height="253" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nsRPOslDQD8/YFvv_Md6eHI/AAAAAAAAQnY/f8OScBvdWxwjOgrrqSz7UImhpp7wqs6EgCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h253/Peggy%2B027.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peggy</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cDAKHNeO6Pc/YFvv-hvr7kI/AAAAAAAAQnU/hlcdDqAyupA4OUU8HK2LWYZ8ybETMj2XwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1952/Mom%2Band%2BDad%2B1958%2B014.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1952" data-original-width="1789" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cDAKHNeO6Pc/YFvv-hvr7kI/AAAAAAAAQnU/hlcdDqAyupA4OUU8HK2LWYZ8ybETMj2XwCLcBGAsYHQ/w291-h320/Mom%2Band%2BDad%2B1958%2B014.JPG" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hilda and Spike</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rKOP8428oMQ/YFvv-Nhq6lI/AAAAAAAAQnI/-946Fa2UkXYTUQNaDLYTK2Gb_XHTYTiiQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2198/419%2BLansdowne%2BAve%2B009.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1482" data-original-width="2198" height="432" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rKOP8428oMQ/YFvv-Nhq6lI/AAAAAAAAQnI/-946Fa2UkXYTUQNaDLYTK2Gb_XHTYTiiQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h432/419%2BLansdowne%2BAve%2B009.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">419 Lansdowne Avenue, Westmount, Montreal</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qmJBByfFWSs/YFvv-co502I/AAAAAAAAQnM/YRgs-upLhEcuU5iXfiC8jBXH6bqPbNZ7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2088/HvS%2Band%2BSpike%2B016.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2079" data-original-width="2088" height="317" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qmJBByfFWSs/YFvv-co502I/AAAAAAAAQnM/YRgs-upLhEcuU5iXfiC8jBXH6bqPbNZ7ACLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h317/HvS%2Band%2BSpike%2B016.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hilda and Spike</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-li9R2Bs5P-w/YFvv-bmVvdI/AAAAAAAAQnQ/QyXuCST9Iqs1N1ejWmPw5KNXWLUmquVWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s4016/Dr%2BJohn%2BHowlett%2B%2B026.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4016" data-original-width="1792" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-li9R2Bs5P-w/YFvv-bmVvdI/AAAAAAAAQnQ/QyXuCST9Iqs1N1ejWmPw5KNXWLUmquVWgCLcBGAsYHQ/w285-h640/Dr%2BJohn%2BHowlett%2B%2B026.JPG" width="285" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr John Howlett</td></tr></tbody></table></div>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-59698894640076602782021-03-21T20:24:00.004-07:002021-03-21T20:28:13.105-07:00DEATH | St. Benedict (480-529)<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NaXsW6xaIUE/YFgMPwjdMAI/AAAAAAAAQl4/QxbIT7tSUksCvGS4KMDCEyoULZqqe4TWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s716/St%2BBenedict%2Bwriting%2Bhis%2BRule.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="444" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NaXsW6xaIUE/YFgMPwjdMAI/AAAAAAAAQl4/QxbIT7tSUksCvGS4KMDCEyoULZqqe4TWwCLcBGAsYHQ/w394-h640/St%2BBenedict%2Bwriting%2Bhis%2BRule.png" width="394" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">St. Benedict writing The Rule.<br />Painting by Herman Nieg, <br />Heiligenkreuz Abbey, Austria</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px;">March 21, 2021—The death of St. Benedict is remembered today or tomorrow. Its sesquimillennial* will be celebrated in A.D. 547. Even before that, Benedictines around the world will be celebrating another sesquimillennial in eight years, namely the foundation of the first Benedictine monastery in Subiaco, Italy (east of Rome, near the ruins of Nero’s ancient palace) in A.D. 529.</span><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px;">*Sesquimillennial is a mashup of four Latin words, semi+que+mille+annus. It means half+and+</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px;">thousand+years, in other words, fifteen hundred years. </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px;">St. Benedict founded twelve monasteries, each with twelve monks, before moving on to Monte Cassino, where he built a large monastic town for monks and nuns. He died there from an illness at sixty-seven years of age</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px;">. Historians have noted that he died not long after when the Justinian plague pandemic (541-542) swept through Italy, leaving the impression that this probably killed him. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px;">His Rule of St. Benedict has guided many men and women in their monastic communities to follow the teachings of Jesus. How many? Well consider that in A.D. 1100, the monastery of Cluny (in Burgundy) alone controlled one thousand independent abbeys. In 1912 there were 700 Benedictine communities with twenty-three thousand monks and nuns. Projecting from those numbers back over fourteen centuries and forward to another century, one gets to a likely million professed Benedictines and counting, even with the periodic persecution of monks and disestablishment of monasteries and convents. </span><a href="http://archive.osb.org/gen/hicks/ben-15.html#TopOfPage" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px;">http://archive.osb.org/gen/hicks/ben-15.html#TopOfPage</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px;">. </span>
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<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Some monasteries have relied on contributions from the faithful, guest house fees, or land rents in places where they have had land to rent. Their primary mission from St. Benedict’s time was to educate children—mostly, historically, boys. A subsidiary role, which became preeminent in some monasteries, was copying sacred texts. These copies were extremely valuable and could be sold. The monasteries and convents have also earned income by making wine and famed eponymous liqueurs, cheese and a variety of other products (<a href="https://communityofsaintbenedict.org">candles, cups, soaps, cakes, chocolates, herbs</a>). The Trappists make beer.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Benedictines were divided by gender, but women were allowed to become heads of their communities. The Abbess of the French Fontevraud Royal Abbey, which followed the Rule of St. Benedict, was in charge of a huge abbey with monks as well as nuns.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Benedictines are by design not worldly, but they have income from their work. In this way they are not beggars (the Franciscans and Dominicans rely on gifts). But Benedictines are contemplative rather than worldly; the Jesuits are by design active in the world. Of the 266 popes to date, only eleven were Benedictines. Benedict XVI said in his first papal appearance that he named himself for St. Benedict of Nursia, and also Benedict XV, who was an active peacemaker in World War I. Most monks in the middle ages were Benedictines. Most of the other western monastic orders were created as spinoffs of the Benedictines, for example, the Cistercians, and their spinoff the Trappists (who are vegetarians, for example)..</p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;">The above note was prompted by emails from Ampleforth College, York, England, which your blogger attended for three years and from Portsmouth Abbey School, which I also attended for three years. Here is the Portsmouth celebration:</p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/portsmouthabbey.org/the-transitus-of-st-benedict?e=63e11c9b6b">https://mailchi.mp/portsmouthabbey.org/the-transitus-of-st-benedict?e=63e11c9b6b</a></span>.</p></div></div>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-23919076163097897982021-03-13T14:29:00.007-08:002021-03-13T18:28:16.775-08:00PUSHCART PRESS | 50 Years of Brilliance<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MYBEC3_WBdk/YE1VB1ef5AI/AAAAAAAAQko/35F9SB65A-sZoDfz0iM6KUMGgYH25hFIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1180/Pushcart%2BPress%2B.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="874" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MYBEC3_WBdk/YE1VB1ef5AI/AAAAAAAAQko/35F9SB65A-sZoDfz0iM6KUMGgYH25hFIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Pushcart%2BPress%2B.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pushcart Prize XLV (45)<br />Just Out!</td></tr></tbody></table>March 13, 2021—I have in hand my <i>2021 Pushcart Prize XLV</i> (Number 45). It is 50 years since my friend Bill Henderson started the annual Pushcart Prize collection of the "Best of the Small Presses." <div><br /></div><div>He and his wife Genie (who serves as archivist for LTV of East Hampton) have been near neighbors for 40 years in The Springs, a hamlet on the East End of Long Island.<div><br /><div>The Pushcart Prize collection this year has 64 hand-curated stories, poems, essays and memoirs, plucked from the pages of pre-eminent private (small) publishers. <p></p><p>These days it is easy enough to self-publish books and post essays. This creates the problem of sifting through the sheer volume of material to pull out the best. </p><p>It's better than the old way, when a few gatekeepers controlled access to the publication pulpits. That was too restrictive.</p><p>The modern problem is that we need more evaluators. Not gatekeepers, but guides to the best.</p><p>For 50 years, Bill has been offering a solution. There are so many small presses that someone should be able to get their work published somewhere. The problem is to identify the gold in the pan, to find the diamonds in the rough. Bill started to do that, hunting for the best writing in the small presses, giving prizes and publishing the best in an annual volume, the Readers Digest of small presses. </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-srsWgklqJqA/YE1VBz_O0XI/AAAAAAAAQkk/0wPWOezrK3wqRXy9vh8ov_N4qlpQN-wTQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1164/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-13%2Bat%2B7.05.14%2BPM.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="1164" height="123" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-srsWgklqJqA/YE1VBz_O0XI/AAAAAAAAQkk/0wPWOezrK3wqRXy9vh8ov_N4qlpQN-wTQCLcBGAsYHQ/w344-h123/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-13%2Bat%2B7.05.14%2BPM.png" width="344" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Open for Nominations Each Year</td></tr></tbody></table>As the 2021 edition says on the copyright page, "Nominations for this series are invited from any small, independent, literary book press or magazine in the world, print or online." (Or, indeed, from anyone who reads one or more of these publications.) <p></p><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NflxiHDFsww/YE1VC92bkPI/AAAAAAAAQks/u-Irz-vm51A2JtyGZDCzl3DOc5_ywMM6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s306/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-13%2Bat%2B7.08.34%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="226" height="171" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NflxiHDFsww/YE1VC92bkPI/AAAAAAAAQks/u-Irz-vm51A2JtyGZDCzl3DOc5_ywMM6ACLcBGAsYHQ/w126-h171/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-13%2Bat%2B7.08.34%2BPM.png" width="126" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bill Henderson</span></td></tr></tbody></table>How can Bill keep up with the hundreds of small presses listed (pp. 495-502), with twenty pages of names and addresses of those that published nominated writing for the 2021 edition (pp. 511-530)? How could he be in touch with thirty pages of authors, seventy to a page (pp. 535-576)?<p></p><p>The key to the sustainability of all this effort is in the list of the editors, who review the nominated writing as well as suggesting their own. They are in the front of the book (pp. 7-9). The list goes on for three pages, even though only the editors for the current issue are included.</p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvCvDFWpk6k/YE1VBzUXF0I/AAAAAAAAQkg/cghwydsw0GEcWYlAPef4GjS4lak4RkmYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s312/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-13%2Bat%2B7.07.44%2BPM.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="312" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvCvDFWpk6k/YE1VBzUXF0I/AAAAAAAAQkg/cghwydsw0GEcWYlAPef4GjS4lak4RkmYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-13%2Bat%2B7.07.44%2BPM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bill Henderson (R) with George <br />Plimpton upon publication of<br />Pushcart X (#10).</td></tr></tbody></table>The last remaining group is tucked in among the small presses (pp. 503-509), the supporters of the nonprofit that pays for the Pushcart Prizes or Fellowships. I have hastened to get Alice and myself included among the sponsors of the next round, and I encourage you to do the same. <div><br /></div><div>Send your check to Fellowships, P.O. Box 380, Wainscott, NY 11975. The giving categories are 0-$249, $250-$999, $1,000-$4,999 and $5,000 and more. </div><div><br /></div><div>Donors to Pushcart include such public-spirited people as Hilaria and Alec Baldwin and Joyce Carol Oates (who has been helping the publication from the beginning).<p></p><p>Bill has been honored with the well-deserved 2020 Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts for his creation and maintenance of the Pushcart Prize Collection.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div></div></div>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-66569913553598788282021-03-13T12:35:00.005-08:002021-03-13T12:35:50.345-08:00BIRTHDAY | Uncle Sam (1852-present)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Maa-fOXTxw/YE0hU55md3I/AAAAAAAAQkY/Xyh5W7Vl6qII2JL0uR6fMfmxpUg6oREzgCLcBGAsYHQ/s898/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-13%2Bat%2B3.31.56%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="668" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Maa-fOXTxw/YE0hU55md3I/AAAAAAAAQkY/Xyh5W7Vl6qII2JL0uR6fMfmxpUg6oREzgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-13%2Bat%2B3.31.56%2BPM.png" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">March 13, 2021—This day in 1852, the <i>Writer's Almanac</i> reminds us, Uncle Sam was born as a national figure. His likeness was first drawn as a cartoon in the <i>New York Lantern</i> by Frank Henry Bellew. It is his 169th birthday. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The portrait of him drawn for a U.S. Army recruiting poster in 1917 by James Montgomery Flagg is called "the most famous poster in the world." <a href="https://s.si.edu/3tgBRqV">https://s.si.edu/3tgBRqV</a>.</span></p>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-25092722290437206992021-01-19T00:02:00.010-08:002021-02-11T16:11:04.336-08:00INSURRECTION | The Constitution's Writers Feared Tyrants, including Mobs<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HolGlFNlOUM/YAaMu3oQr1I/AAAAAAAAQhs/Fxsv5rBhoyIsYpTGuWDwKCJk-k9st8xVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1230/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-01-19%2Bat%2B2.35.25%2BAM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1230" data-original-width="910" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HolGlFNlOUM/YAaMu3oQr1I/AAAAAAAAQhs/Fxsv5rBhoyIsYpTGuWDwKCJk-k9st8xVgCLcBGAsYHQ/w296-h400/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-01-19%2Bat%2B2.35.25%2BAM.png" width="296" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David Lefer</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">January 19, 2021—The epiphany of January 6 will be two weeks ago tomorrow, when President Joe Biden will be inaugurated.</span><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">It is a good time to remember an event six years ago, long before social distancing put an end for a while to in-person events, that the Harvard Club of New York created a book expo. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">There I became interested in a book by David Lefer on <i>The Founding Conservatives</i>. I wrote about his book afterwards in <a href="https://theoxbridgepursuivant.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-mid-atlantic-conservatives-of.html">a post on the Oxbridge Pursuivant blog site</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The book's theme is that in <a href="https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/more-perfect-union">writing the Constitution</a> conservatives like <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/james-madison-mob-rule/568351/">Madison</a> and Hamilton were building in protections against hostile mobs. <i>They had good reason.</i> During the debate over ratifying the document, which took place in Philadelphia, a mob captured and took hostage some members of the state assembly to get them to vote their way.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Conservatives were concerned that they were trading American freedom from tyranny by George III and Lord North for tyranny by mobs at home. </span><span style="font-size: large;">They would have been particularly appalled by a political party or faction, whether on the right or left, trying to <i>overturn the results of an election</i> by appealing to a mob.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">I was especially interested in what Lefer had to say about John Dickinson of Delaware. Another person that interested me was <a href="https://history.army.mil/books/RevWar/ss/livingston.htm">William Livingston</a>, who represented New Jersey at the Constitutional Convention.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-34336848762676877482020-10-30T18:13:00.036-07:002021-01-18T13:42:08.490-08:00BIRTHDAY | Robert Caro, 85<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p7p0FrW9_Fs/X5zFWMCQ6JI/AAAAAAAAQVE/BxcXUFsoxtQ3OXzweBNXQpaZfQJadun3ACLcBGAsYHQ/s870/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-30%2Bat%2B9.59.54%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="870" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p7p0FrW9_Fs/X5zFWMCQ6JI/AAAAAAAAQVE/BxcXUFsoxtQ3OXzweBNXQpaZfQJadun3ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-30%2Bat%2B9.59.54%2BPM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L to R: Alec Baldwin, Jules Feiffer, <br />Robert Caro, East Hampton Library, <br />2015. Photo by JTMarlin.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>October 30, 2020—Happy 85th birthday, Robert Caro. A New Yorker by birth, Caro is known for his two in-depth biographies, of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson (five volumes so far, or is it six?), to which he has devoted his lifetime. <div><br /></div><div>These congratulations are a reprise of the Happy Birthday posted here <a href="http://boissevainbooksllc.blogspot.com/2015/10/oct-30-birthday-of-biographer-robert.html">on your 80th, five years ago</a>.<div><br /><div>Congratulations also on the fine tribute to you today from Garrison Keillor's <i><a href="https://www.garrisonkeillor.com/radio/twa-the-writers-almanac-for-october-30-2020/">Writer's Almanac</a></i>, from which this is extracted:<p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>s an investigative reporter for <i>Newsday, </i>Robert Caro wrote why a proposed bridge across Long Island Sound from Rye to Oyster Bay would be a bad idea. It was promoted by Robert Moses, the urban planner. Caro had been convinced his articles would reverse the decision to build the bridge, but the state’s Assembly voted to begin construction. Caro was stunned. He said: </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">I got in the car and drove home to Long Island, and I kept thinking to myself: ‘Everything you’ve been doing is baloney. You’ve been writing under the belief that power in a democracy comes from the ballot box. But here’s a guy who has never been elected to anything, who has enough power to turn the entire state around, and you don’t have the slightest idea how he got it.</p></blockquote><p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J80Vn7COHO0/X5zIQa9uR1I/AAAAAAAAQVQ/HEQtOTBVqJIju3c1QZn4Tm0RsuQBSL69gCLcBGAsYHQ/s820/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-30%2Bat%2B9.48.33%2BPM.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="572" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J80Vn7COHO0/X5zIQa9uR1I/AAAAAAAAQVQ/HEQtOTBVqJIju3c1QZn4Tm0RsuQBSL69gCLcBGAsYHQ/w222-h320/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-30%2Bat%2B9.48.33%2BPM.png" width="222" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caro's latest book, on his<br />work habits. Previewed in<br /><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/the-secrets-of-lyndon-johnsons-archives">The <i>New Yorker</i></a>.</td></tr></tbody></table>Caro took seven years to write his 1,300-page biography of Moses, <i>The Power Broker</i> (1974). He was so broke while he was writing the book that his wife sold their Long Island house without telling him. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction [he won again with his LBJ biography]. To write biography well, Robert Caro believes it must read like fiction. He says:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">Rhythm matters. Mood matters. Sense of place matters. All these things we talk about with novels, yet I feel that for history and biography to accomplish what they should accomplish, they have to pay as much attention to these devices as novels do. </p></blockquote><p></p>Caro keeps a strict routine when writing, like wearing a suit and a tie and keeping the same hours every day. He interviewed LBJ's speechwriter 22 times and lived in Texas for several years while doing research.<p></p><p><b>Comment: </b>I was introduced to Robert Caro in New York City in 1974 when <i>The Power Broker</i> first came out, I think by Julius C. C. Edelstein, who was a fellow professor when I taught in the CUNY system in the 1970s. </p><p>I have met the Caros several times since then at the Authors' Night in East Hampton, where they have a summer home. He has described both of his biographies as investigations into power—how it is acquired and how it is used. He has said: “The power of the historian is the power of the truth, a very basic thing.”</p><p>The <i>Guardian </i>published a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/21/robert-caro-interview-working-lbj-more-facts-you-collect-closer-to-the-truth">fine interview</a> with Caro last year that includes his wife Ina. She was Caro's sole research collaborator and recently wrote two books of her own on traveling in France. One of her books describes <a href="https://cityeconomist.blogspot.com/2015/10/nicolas-fouquet-and-finances-of-louis.html">the palace that Fouquet built</a>; it inspired Alice and me to visit it when we were in France recently.</p></div></div></div>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-9330463609606051092020-09-18T11:00:00.012-07:002020-09-18T23:24:37.603-07:00THE FREE LIFE | 50 Years Ago<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mi-zvQMnRfQ/X2TzE6llonI/AAAAAAAAQSs/yDtDCyL3ot0TasMk6003Qn4uygjG8ehmACLcBGAsYHQ/s1202/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-18%2Bat%2B11.28.18%2BAM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1202" height="432" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mi-zvQMnRfQ/X2TzE6llonI/AAAAAAAAQSs/yDtDCyL3ot0TasMk6003Qn4uygjG8ehmACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h432/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-18%2Bat%2B11.28.18%2BAM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>September 18, 2020—This week's <i>East Hampton Star </i>has a Guestwords (op-ed) tribute by LTV's Archivist, Genie Chipps Henderson, to "The Free Life" balloon that was launched from George Sid Miller's farm in Springs 50 years ago. In the aerial photo above, Accabonac Harbor is in the background.<div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The three balloonists were: </span></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: 14px;">Actress Pamela Brown, 28, daughter of Kentucky Congressman John Y. Brown Sr. and sister of Kentucky Fried Chicken CEO John Y. Brown, Jr.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: 14px;">Her husband Rodney (Rod) Anderson, 32.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: 14px;">Famed English balloonist Malcolm Brighton, 32. </span></li></ul><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: 14px;">It was Brighton's 100th balloon ascent. </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: times; font-size: 14px;">It was also his last. I have written about this flight in prior years, for example, here: </span><a href="http://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2013/09/september-21-end-of-free-life.html">http://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2013/09/september-21-end-of-free-life.html</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>The balloon was first assembled over several weeks in the field behind 775 (now 771) Springs Fireplace Road. It was then brought north on the same road to Miller's larger field —a pasture for horses from which the horses were temporarily removed—for inflation, filming, and launching.</div><div><br /></div><div>As the flight plans moved along, some nagging questions arose:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Only one of the three was an experienced balloonist.</li><li>The balloonist was not involved in the design of the balloon, and had issues with it.</li><li>Above all, the design did not allow easy separation of the gondola from the balloon.</li><li>Another experienced balloonist pulled out because he decided it was too risky.</li><li>On the day before the launch, a couple of tears were found in the balloon. One of them was described by farmer Miller as a "hole in the side" that was "patched". </li><li>A crowd came to see them off. The press was out in force—a problem, because it meant rescheduling would have wasted their time and lost face for the crew.</li><li>It was beautiful launch day. What could go wrong?</li><li>The departure was fueled by champagne.</li></ul>The momentum of a sendoff makes turning back difficult. I am reminded of this when I speculate why it has been so hard for some to self-quarantine or accept a lockdown to stop the spread of Covid-19. Momentum keeps us wanting to stick to the old plan, the old way.</div><div><br /></div><div>After they took off, a PanAm pilot warned them about a cold front coming south. When they reached Newfoundland, they ran into a storm. Brighton, in a clear and professional voice, notified the Gander Delta weather station that they were ditching the balloon. They were coming down over water. That, alas, was the last anyone heard from the balloon.</div><div><br /></div><div>Presumably Brighton was planning on cutting the lines that held the balloon to the gondola and the crew would then get into the onboard raft and be rescued. One could imagine that in the storm the crew could not cut them fast enough. If they did cut loose and made it to the raft, it would have been a challenge for the 1970-vintage operation at Gander to send out a rescue mission to get to them quickly. They were hundreds of miles away.</div><div><br /></div><div>No one ever found any trace of The Free Life.</div><div><p>Genie Henderson was a close friend of fellow Kentuckian Pamela Brown. Here is her story: <a href="https://www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-opinion/2020917/guestwords-50-years-later-free-life">https://www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-opinion/2020917/guestwords-50-years-later-free-life</a>. A plaque is being prepared to mark the pasture where the flight was launched.</p><p>Brighton's daughter, who was eight years old at the time, has initiated a special site to honor the quest represented by The Free Life—<span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="cursor: pointer;"><a href="https://www.thefreelifeballoon.com/">https://www.thefreelifeballoon.com/</a></span></span>. It includes a compelling movie about the flight.</span></p></div>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-24184967029078752012020-09-17T09:37:00.003-07:002020-09-17T09:46:58.412-07:00CONSTITUTION DAY | 233rd Anniversary Celebration<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px;">September 17, 2020. On this day in 1787 the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px;">United States Constitution</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px;"> was signed by delegates at the final meeting of the Constitutional Convention. </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We may forget that the Constitutional Convention was created to raise money for the central government so it could maintain a military to stop piracy. The central government was supposed to provide such services but it didn't have the money to pay for them. It didn't have an effective means of collecting its debts.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The war with Britain had officially ended four years before, but the Articles of Confederation created by the Second Continental Congress were weak. After overthrowing an imperious monarch, George III, the Americans had no taste for another strong central authority. The United States had no real executive, just a president of the Congress. The Second Continental Congress had thrown the government-creating job back to each of the 13 colonies. They did their job, and took on what they could, but some things could only be done centrally, like maintaining an Army and a Navy.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">By 1787, not one of the states was up-to-date on its federal taxes. The central government had no way to force collection. Meanwhile, pirates were attacking American ships, and the central government could afford neither to pay them off nor defend the ships. Troops were deserting, and the national military was unable to come to the aid of states when they needed it.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">James Madison and other leaders organized the Constitutional Convention to enable the central government to collect taxes and provide reliable services. In May 1787, delegates arrived in Philadelphia and there spent the next four months rewriting the Articles of Confederation. It was hot and buggy. <span style="font-size: 18.7px;">The 55 highly educated, and by-now politically seasoned, delegates averaged 42 years of age:</span></p>
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<li style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 22.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="background-color: white;">George Washington was elected president and rarely spoke. </span></li>
<li style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 22.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="background-color: white;">Alexander Hamilton was absent from much of the deliberations but emerged as the principal author of the <i>Federalist Papers,</i> arguing why the Constitution should be ratified. </span></li>
<li style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 22.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="background-color: white;">Governor Morris was a witty man with a peg leg who wrote the famous preamble to the Constitution. </span></li>
<li style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 22.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="background-color: white;">Benjamin Franklin, 81, could no longer walk and had to be carried around Philadelphia in a sedan chair.</span></li>
<li style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 22.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="background-color: white;">James Madison was constantly in attendance, taking notes and arguing strenuously for a more powerful central government. A small man, 5'6" and weighing 120 pounds, he became known as "the Father of the Constitution.” On the final day of the Constitutional Convention, he wrote: "“Franklin, looking towards the President's Chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. <i>I have,</i> said he, <i>often … looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.</i>”</span></li></ul>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Today, the National Archives is celebrating the 233rd anniversary of the signing of the <span style="color: #333333;">Constitution</span> with special virtual programs for all ages, including book talks, public programs, and interactive webinars. The National Archives is the permanent home of the original Constitution. See the Archives special <a href="https://archives.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfeaf03e7b0b1636c0b375892&id=0f8ebc9e44&e=e07df17b53"><span style="color: #0b5bae;">Celebrating Constitution Day</span></a> page for information about its public programs, family activities, and online resources.</p>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-3335792524885740202020-09-13T00:04:00.011-07:002020-09-17T23:34:07.898-07:00SHIPS | MS Boissevain (1937-1968)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yB86TFa6i3c/X12-Mv65sQI/AAAAAAAAQQk/HGjrWRBFaAApbqPlQFv815uotI7USKp1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1424/MV%2BBoissevain.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1424" height="410" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yB86TFa6i3c/X12-Mv65sQI/AAAAAAAAQQk/HGjrWRBFaAApbqPlQFv815uotI7USKp1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h410/MV%2BBoissevain.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The MS Boissevain, built 1937, named after Jan Boissevain (1836-1904)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N-44AvklyVA/X12-R7zITaI/AAAAAAAAQQs/P0l9na-79uYYIxs2uHBIPmYLNleoj_4FACLcBGAsYHQ/s614/Launching%2B49.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></a></div>September 13, 2020—The MS [Motor Ship, sometimes MV for Motor Vessel] Boissevain was officially launched on June 3, 1937 in Hamburg. The passenger ship was impressive for its day. It and the other two ships built at the same time were intended for luxury service in Asia, Africa and Latin America.<div> <div><div><div></div></div><div>The MS Boissevain was named after Jan Boissevain, older brother (by six years) of Charles Boissevain (1842-1927), who was your blogger's great-grandfather. A friend and third cousin, Ben Boissevain of Ascento Capital, is great-grandson of Jan Boissevain.</div><div><div><br /></div><div>Today I received some photos I hadn't seen before, from Thomas E. Brown. They were in a photo album he purchased in the 1990s from a German dealer, Hermann Historica. It has many photos of the shipbuilding dock at Boehm and Voss during the 1930s. It contains details about the MS Boissevain and the two other large passenger-cargo liners of the Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (KPM). </div><div><br /></div><div>1. The first series shows the launching party's arrival at the B+V shipyard 45 in Hamburg on June 3, 1937. They are met by shipyard dignitaries. Here is a sample.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IEsyViu9z_0/X13Atvr8KxI/AAAAAAAAQRM/epc-YkodfO0emCh6b9nckg1hayC8e2HWACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Arriving%2Bdignitaries%2B42.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IEsyViu9z_0/X13Atvr8KxI/AAAAAAAAQRM/epc-YkodfO0emCh6b9nckg1hayC8e2HWACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Arriving%2Bdignitaries%2B42.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Launching party arrives, met by shipyard executives.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>2. Ellegonda Duranda (E. D.) Boissevain is in many photos—she is the young lady in front at with the cake-like hat, dark coat and bouquet of flowers. She is your blogger's third cousin, Jan Boissevain's great-granddaughter.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DJ0P6LEuKUA/X13BpAF1yDI/AAAAAAAAQRg/k3_IkoBsBdwSa--RWPSW10Gz47SSnFSVACLcBGAsYHQ/s556/Arriving%2B44.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="556" height="482" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DJ0P6LEuKUA/X13BpAF1yDI/AAAAAAAAQRg/k3_IkoBsBdwSa--RWPSW10Gz47SSnFSVACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h482/Arriving%2B44.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ellegonda Duranda Boissevain (born 1914) is in front at right. She later married <br />Eduard Veltman and subsequently Arthur Anton Kunzil.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>3. The white-haired gentleman in the first photo is also seen making a speech in the launching photo below. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xXXvLWOhU3A/X13A-doAwJI/AAAAAAAAQRY/b8dPj_4Z0kYd5iI3tg4xggqexI2iIipggCLcBGAsYHQ/s614/Launching%2B49.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="614" height="258" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xXXvLWOhU3A/X13A-doAwJI/AAAAAAAAQRY/b8dPj_4Z0kYd5iI3tg4xggqexI2iIipggCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h258/Launching%2B49.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unidentified white-haired man presides.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>4. Then they all leave.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qeI9pydIisg/X13CVRXV6SI/AAAAAAAAQRs/5MCpZQy6KrwH4kx1b0i2KxvrQ_7m_MRCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Leaving%2B54.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qeI9pydIisg/X13CVRXV6SI/AAAAAAAAQRs/5MCpZQy6KrwH4kx1b0i2KxvrQ_7m_MRCgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Leaving%2B54.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dignitaries depart.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><div>Each of the three ships was named after one of the KPM founders/Directors— Jan Boissevain, Mr. Tegelberg and Mr. Ruys.
These three Dutch liners were all launched in 1937, yet strangely each ship was built by a different builder, as well as one outside of the Netherlands, yet each ship was identical, with minor interior décor differences. </div><div><br /></div><div>Once completed, each ship reached their homeport in Asia, but they rarely visited the Netherlands, which was invaded without warning or pretext by Hitler in 1940. Instead, the ships operated as part of the most exotic and far-ranging ocean liner service in the world. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij — “KPM” or “Royal Packet Navigation Company"— operated extended voyages from Hong Kong, Manila, Saigon, Bangkok, Singapore, Batavia, Rodriguez, Mauritius, Réunion, Tamatave, Lourenço Marques, Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay, and Cape Town. Also Zanzibar, Mombasa, Mahé, Belawan Deli, Shanghai Hong Kong. Here's another photo of the MS Boissevain.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IWmQk2COzzI/X13CsDBLnoI/AAAAAAAAQR0/AHqCESAI2LsmPdqok2XfBTGtfKa-T-dVwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-12%2Bat%2B11.22.39%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1600" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IWmQk2COzzI/X13CsDBLnoI/AAAAAAAAQR0/AHqCESAI2LsmPdqok2XfBTGtfKa-T-dVwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h256/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-12%2Bat%2B11.22.39%2BPM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Speed trials for the MS Boissevain were a success.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Their services varied, and their schedules would include South America, after their WW2 troop-carrying duties.
The three ships were originally built with luxurious and extremely spacious accommodations for just 82 passengers in First Class, 72 passengers in Second Class, and 500 Third Class passengers. </div><div><br /></div><div>First Class passengers had specially designed public rooms. Two deluxe suites had glass- enclosed private verandas. There were spacious promenade and sports decks and a Lido Cafe opening onto a tiled outdoor Pool. The passengers included very wealthy people in First Class, International and Asian tourists, and migrants to a new land. In their 30 years of operation, the MS Boissevain and its two sister ships became greatly loved for exemplary service and fine cuisine, provided in elegant interiors. </div><div><br /></div><div>From the Blohm & Voss slipway, the MS Boissevain entered the water for the first time. Once afloat, she was towed to her Blohm & Voss "Fit-Out" berth, where she was fitted out, had her funnel placed atop and masts added. When she was completed in October she headed out to sea for her speed trials, which reached an excellent 18.1 knots at top speed. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Boissevain was delivered to KPM in Yokohama, Japan on December 1, 1937. KPM ensured the ship was fully crewed and stocked up to commence her first voyage in early January 1938.
The advance 1938 MS Boissevain schedule was published by KPM prior to the MS Boissevain being completed, with an artist's impression of The Boissevain on the cover. </div><div><br /></div><div>During World War II they became troop carriers and their glamorous interiors were sacrificed to wartime needs for maximum capacity for troops. The MS Boissevain was renamed HMS (Her Majesty's Ship) Boissevain because the boat was in the service of the Dutch Queen. The ships docked with troops in the Dutch East indies in Batavia and Tandjong-Priok.</div><div><br /></div><div>After the war and independence for Sukarno's Indonesia, in 1947 the ships were refurbished and reglamorized in Hong Kong. They went into service and in 1961 were refurbished again, with a new branding as part of the Royal Interocean Line (RIL). The ships were scrapped in 1968.</div><div><br /></div><div>To help sort out family relationships to Jan Boissevain (1836-1904), the shipowner and co-founder of KPM, here is an abbreviated Boissevain family tree. Jan is the older brother of Charles Boissevain, who is your blogger's great-grandfather. The numerous descendants of Jan are called the Jantjes and similarly numerous descendants of his younger brother are called the Charlestjes.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NfgR7KuQEao/X2MCprdV4LI/AAAAAAAAQSU/DT81XczYFK4aOpidHc93Df0-H9vuAuvsACLcBGAsYHQ/s1086/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-17%2Bat%2B2.02.05%2BAM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="752" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NfgR7KuQEao/X2MCprdV4LI/AAAAAAAAQSU/DT81XczYFK4aOpidHc93Df0-H9vuAuvsACLcBGAsYHQ/w443-h640/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-17%2Bat%2B2.02.05%2BAM.png" width="443" /></a></div><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div><div><b>Sources</b>: </div><div><i>Timetable</i>: <a href="http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/list.htm">http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/list.htm</a> Short link: <a href="https://bit.ly/2Zx8tAd">https://bit.ly/2Zx8tAd</a>. </div><div><i>KPM</i>: <a href="http://ssmaritime.com/KPM-Boissevain-Tegelberg-Ruys-1.htm">http://ssmaritime.com/KPM-Boissevain-Tegelberg-Ruys-1.htm</a> Short link: <a href="https://bit.ly/3ir4DQN">https://bit.ly/3ir4DQN</a> Short link: <a href="https://bit.ly/35u2noc">https://bit.ly/35u2noc</a>.</div><div><i>Family Tree</i>: Your blogger based on the <i>Nederlands' Patriciaat </i>("Blue Book").</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-16181291670760106602020-08-11T22:05:00.002-07:002020-08-11T22:05:22.596-07:00WW2 | Who Mostly Enforced the Blackouts?<p> August 12, 2020—Wearing a mask in Covid-19 time is akin to blacking out your windows, or turning off lights, during World War 2.</p><p>Who enforced the rules then? The answer is they were volunteer air raid wardens. They would patrol the streets looking for lights in windows, and they would knock on the doors of people who were letting light appear that could guide enemy bombers.</p><p>Was there much violation of the rules? No, because everyone understood it was in the interest of the neighborhood not to be visible from the air at night. </p><p>More<a href="http://www.americainwwii.com/articles/busy-with-the-blitz-proofing/"><b> here</b></a>. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-78560528868909327432020-08-02T16:30:00.018-07:002020-08-02T19:56:50.038-07:00WW2 HOLLAND | Jimmy Huizinga, Wally van Hall<i><font size="5">August 2, 2020—I wrote something about the visit of <a href="http://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2016/07/dutch-history-johan-and-jimmy-huizinga.html">Wally and Gijsbert van Hall to New York City</a> in 1929 (!). The two brothers had jobs on Wall Street. They spent time with Jimmy Huizinga, son of the great Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, who was imprisoned by the Nazis in 1942 for his anti-fascist views and died in prison in 1945.</font></i><div><i><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i><font size="5">I just received a short memory by someone who became, a generation or two later, another friend of Jimmy Huizinga. </font></i><font size="5"><i>My correspondent's name is Rider McDowell, a writer who lives with his wife and sons in Pebble Beach, California. This is what he wrote to me, posted here with his permission:</i></font></div><div><div><div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AkqBYVV9mXw/XydLpSml9cI/AAAAAAAAQN0/sWbBd8uvmj4ZKAH3Wct5DTamBcIuzicsQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1707/Huizinga.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1707" data-original-width="1280" height="512" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AkqBYVV9mXw/XydLpSml9cI/AAAAAAAAQN0/sWbBd8uvmj4ZKAH3Wct5DTamBcIuzicsQCLcBGAsYHQ/w384-h512/Huizinga.jpeg" width="384" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rider McDowell (L) and Jimmy Huizinga, <br />in Gassin, France.</td></tr></tbody></table><div>Jimmy was my surrogate grandfather. Great guy. His wife was the former Mary Cookson, who’d previously been married to Johnny Churchill. They were a great couple, took me under their wing when I was 19.
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I was introduced to them in London through a girlfriend’s family. The Huizingas were looking for “an artist in residence” to work as a part time handyman on their property in Gassin [just west of Saint-Tropez on the Côte d'Azur], for the spring and summer season. Jimmy had just turned 70 and Mary used to say she was born on the same day as JFK.<br /><br />
I was an aspiring writer and Jimmy read and critiqued my first mystery novel as well as my first play and several short stories. They were great fun and we became very close and would get together for years afterwards in London for dinner, etc.</div><div><br />
The first time I met Jimmy we walked from his property in Gassin to one being constructed by industrialist Gunter Sachs, an enormous ornate plate glass, bird cage of a house. And Jimmy said, “Look at this monstrosity and look at all that glass. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” And I said, “I think so.” And with a chuckle we each picked up a rock, and threw it at this enormous window, and then ran.</div><div><br />
Even though Jimmy was 50 years older than me, we were like pals. We'd drive around to various expatriate parties around St Tropez. Jimmy knew everyone. My English girlfriend would hang with Jimmy's wife, and Jimmy and I would raise hell at the parties, meeting people and having constant laughs.</div><div><br />
Once we went skiing for the day, some French Alp. We drove all the way there and back in one day. When we returned, he made me drag him into his house, feigning two broken legs to Mary, who almost fainted. </div><div><br /></div><div>He was a very popular guy, a lot of fun, but very dedicated to his own writing and led a responsible life in general. Twice I lived in their 'cabanon' in Gassin, and thereafter we would see each other in London, and then we communicated regularly by mail and phone when I moved to NYC. </div><div><br /></div><div>They had a delightful little mews house in Lennox Gardens Mews, in the Knightsbridge neighborhood of Westminster. They would rent out when they went to Gassin each year. David Niven came by to rent it once—his daughters were taking some course at Sotheby’s—and Mary was impressed that Niven appreciated the furniture in the house, which was quite old and eclectic. </div><div><br /></div><div>Jimmy felt that Niven's wife was bad news. "There's something wrong with that woman, I'd stake my life on it," he told me. He said he'd followed her around during their tour of the house fearing she might steal something.
Jimmy christened me his American grandson and there was an aspect of this to our friendship. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The advice he offered me about life and a career and what sort of people to avoid, etc., was extremely helpful, as I had little of this from my own tenuous homefront. Looking back I can see that Jimmy saw me partly as the son he never had. Just a great guy.</div></div></div></div>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-65182178250270083282020-07-28T20:52:00.005-07:002020-07-28T20:53:50.070-07:00NYC MARCH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS | NAACP's James Weldon Johnson<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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July 28, 2020—On this day in 1917, 10,000 Blacks organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) marched on Fifth Avenue in New York City.<br />
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Credit for this is given to novelist-poet-songwriter James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), who was also a lawyer, a U.S. consul overseas and a leader of the NAACP.<br />
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Behind the scenes at the NAACP was Inez Milholland Boissevain's father, John E. Milholland, who was the NAACP's first Treasurer. Inez, of course, died in 1916 and her father would still be grieving.<br />
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James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida. His father was a hotel headwaiter and his mother was a teacher at the segregated Stanton School, which Johnson attended until he went to his school. He grew up in a middle-class home, and his mother encouraged him to pursue his interests in reading and music.<br />
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Johnson attended high school and college at Atlanta University. He received his bachelor’s degree 1894.
After college, Johnson became the principal of Stanton School, and expanded the school to include a high school. He also began studying law. In 1898, he was admitted to the Florida Bar, the first Black person to be admitted.<br />
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Johnson continued to serve as principal and began practicing law. In addition, he wrote poetry and songs.
In 1901, Johnson decided to pursue a career in writing. He and his brother, John Rosamond Johnson, left for New York City to write songs for musicals. They composed about two hundred songs for Broadway.<br />
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n New York, Johnson also became involved in politics. In 1904, he served as treasurer for the Colored Republican Club. In 1906, the Roosevelt Administration appointed Johnson as the United States consul in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. In 1909, he served as consul in Corinto, Nicaragua until 1913. In addition to his service as consul, during this time, Johnson anonymously published his novel, <i>The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man</i> (1912).<br />
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In 1916, Johnson accepted the position of field secretary for the NAACP. He worked at opening new branches and expanding membership. In 1920, the NAACP appointed him executive secretary. In this position, he was able to bring attention to racism, lynching and segregation. After ten years of serving as executive secretary, Johnson accepted a creative writing teaching position at Fisk University.<br />
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Johnson developed his own philosophy on lessening racism in America. While W.E.B. Du Bois advocated intellectual development and Booker T. Washington advocated industrial training to combat racism, Johnson believed it was important for Blacks to produce great literature and art. By doing so, Johnson held that Blacks could demonstrate their intellectual equality and advance their placement in America.
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One of his more popular works was <i>God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse</i> (1927). In 1927, he also reissued his first novel under his own name. Johnson died in 1938, after a train hit the car his wife was driving.<br />
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Sources: NAACP History.John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-76857007967854314762020-07-28T14:50:00.003-07:002020-07-28T14:55:24.475-07:00BIRTH | John Ashbery<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">July 28, 2020—Today is John Ashbery's birthday. I was privileged to live in the same building in Chelsea, Manhattan for half his life. We shared the management skills of an overqualified young woman who cleaned our apartments. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He was a generous man, and did a reading an an exhibition of the art of Brigid Marlin. He had just published "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" (1974) and Brigid was similarly fascinated with convexity and had done several self-portraits of that nature. John Ashbery when I spoke with him was always thoughtful and instructive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is what Garrison Keillor says about him:</span><br />
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<strong>He was born in Rochester, New York (1927), and raised on a farm near Lake Ontario. He worked as an art critic in Paris and New York in the 1950s and '60s, and his poetry has been influenced by abstract expressionist art. It's also often called "difficult." "I'm quite puzzled by my work too, along with a lot of other people," he told <em>Contemporary Authors</em>. "I was always intrigued by it, but at the same time a little apprehensive and sort of embarrassed about annoying the same critics who are always annoyed by my work. I'm kind of sorry that I cause so much grief."</strong></div>
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<strong>He's won nearly every American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a MacArthur "Genius" grant. In 2009, he became the first living poet to be the subject of one of the Library of America's "Collected Poems of ..." series. The <em>Oxonian Review</em> remarked: "It is a fitting honour for a man whose decades-long reign as one of the high priests of the contemporary American poetry scene has always been something of a paradox. Having received nearly every major award for achievement in the humanities, he continues to incite considerable debate as to whether his poems 'mean' anything at all."</strong></div>
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<strong>Ashbery told the <em>London Times</em>: "I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don't think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation. My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life."</strong></div>
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John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-45183688476676778992020-07-25T09:32:00.005-07:002020-07-25T09:36:58.483-07:00BIRTH | A Little Engine that Could, July 25, 1814<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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July 25, 2020—On this day in 1814, English engineer George Stephenson (1781-1848) introduced his first steam locomotive, a little engine that could named <i>Blücher.</i><br />
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It was used to carry coal from Newcastle upon Tyne to the rest of the world by sea.<br />
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This was the first-ever practical locomotive, able to haul 30 tons of coal up a hill at 4 mph. It was used to tow coal wagons along the wagonway from Killingworth to the coal staiths at Wallsend for transfer to ships.<br />
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From this first locomotive, Stephenson quickly developed better ones, using his "steam blast" technology. He created his famed <i>Rocket </i>locomotive in 1829.<br />
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Born June 9, 1781, in Wylam, Northumberland, England, he died August 12, 1848 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. In addition to inventing the first practical locomotive, he created the first railway line in 1825. He is properly called the “Father of Railways.”
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He was the son of a mechanic and so learned to operate a Newcomen atmospheric-steam engine by 19 years if age. The engine was used to pump out a coal mine near Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He enrolled in night school after following the news about Napoleon, and he learned how to read and write.<br />
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His knowledge of steam engines won him the post of engine wright, chief mechanic, at the Killingworth colliery.
In 1813, he visited a neighboring colliery to examine a “steam boiler on wheels” constructed to haul coal out of the mines. It was promising but broke down frequently.<br />
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With the support of Lord Ravensworth, principal owner of Killingworth, Stephenson built the Blücher.
Not satisfied, he sought to improve his locomotive’s power and introduced the steam blast, redirecting exhaust steam up a chimney, pulling air after it and increasing the draft. The new design made the locomotive practical and opened up the railway age.John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-79376737724223259782020-07-22T08:44:00.003-07:002020-07-23T06:38:39.359-07:00R.I.P. | John Lewis, 1940-2020<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rep. John Lewis receiving the President's <br />
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<b><i>The following appreciation of Rep. John Lewis is from guest blogger Doug Clemmons, a Baltimore-based attorney who wrote earlier about a life-changing </i><a href="https://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2019/10/rip-elijah-cummings-1951-2019.html" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">meeting with the late Elijah M. Cummings</a><i>. </i></b><br />
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The late Honorable John Lewis was a living American hero for his entire adult life.<br />
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He is worthy of the praise you would give someone injured on the field of battle fighting for the freedom of Americans—even those who never knew on a personal level the soldier’s sacrifice or name.<br />
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Fortunately I had the opportunity to serve, and learn from, a Congressman that provided me the freedom to attend many hearings and events where Lewis was a speaker.
John Lewis was close to (<a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0723-elijah-cummings-john-lewis-20200722-sls4huvaznct3ne6kjrqdn5dge-story.html" target="_blank">and looked like)</a> the late Congressman Elijah Cummings, another wonderful leader I had the great privilege to meet and was not always properly recognized, but was always there for his constituents.<br />
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These two Congressmen shared a trait I would describe as an aura. You knew if you were wrong, you would be in for an earnest and peaceful fight that would not end until you changed my way of thinking.<br />
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<i>The New York Times</i> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/john-lewis-dead.html" target="_blank">obituary of John Lewis</a> summarized: “Images of his beating at Selma shocked the nation and led to swift passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He was later called the conscience of the Congress.”<br />
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It has been a year for deaths of those who worked on behalf of their brothers. Another Atlantan and an original Freedom Rider, Reverend Cordy Tindell Vivian, affectionately known as C.T., also died this past weekend. He was 15 years older than Lewis and an 18-year veteran of the civil rights movement. He had participated in a lunch counter sit-in in 1947, when he risked his life alongside another minister, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Congressman Lewis.<br />
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I am thankful for the right to vote and I am thankful for the contributions of all the Black leaders to the cause of freedom and equality. In times like these I have special reason to be grateful for their legacies and the courage they showed in building them.
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John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-85976841595910966382020-07-10T19:28:00.000-07:002020-07-10T23:41:56.335-07:00FOREIGN FLYERS | July 10, Battle of Britain Starts<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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July 10, 2020—On this day in 1940 the Battle of Britain began. It was to be the beginning of Operation Sea Lion, Hitler's invasion of England.<br />
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It was intended to be a preliminary air battle of a few days. It ended up becoming a standoff, as the Royal Air Force held off the Luftwaffe for the entire summer.<br />
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Of the RAF flyers, Sir Winston Churchill said on August 20, 1940: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."<br />
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"The Few" included 550 foreign flyers, out of 2,900 RAF pilots. The foreign flyers came from Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, as well as expatriates from Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland, and other countries under Nazi occupation.<br />
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The Polish No. 303 fighter squadron shot down 126 Luftwaffe planes during the battle, more than any other Allied unit. The RAF’s top ace was Josef Frantisek, a Czech aviator who claimed 17 aerial victories.<br />
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Some were from the United States. One famous flyer was 29-year-old Billy Fiske, who was a gold-medal winner for bobsledding at the Winter Olympics.<br />
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At the end of his teaching year at the University of Maryland, where he was a mathematics teacher, my uncle Willem van Stockum signed up to teach flying to the Royal Canadian Air Force. As conditions worsened in his native Holland, he <a href="https://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2020/07/birth-dorothy-thompson.html" target="_blank">volunteered to be a bomber pilot for the RAF</a>, although at 33 he was considered old for this job. He left from his base in Melbourne, Yorkshire on June 9 and was shot down a few hours later. It was during the week of D-Day. He is buried near where his plane came down, in Laval.<br />
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He was listed as Dutch, and he has a tombstone provided by the Dutch Government. But he was trained as a mathematician at Trinity College, Dublin, obtained his degree from the University of Edinburgh, was living in the United States when he signed up and was seconded by the RCAF. All these countries claim him.<br />
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His Flying Officer (pilot) counterpart on the other plane shot down that night was from Australia.<br />
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<br />John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-37080267943636385142020-07-09T07:06:00.005-07:002020-07-10T19:36:08.073-07:00BIRTH | Dorothy Thompson, 1893<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">July 9, 2020</span><strong style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: #202020; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">—</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">This day in 1893 was born journalist Dorothy Celene Thompson, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;"> in Lancaster, New York. </span><em style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: #202020; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">Time </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">magazine poll ranked her as one of the two most important woman in the United States, along with Eleanor Roosevelt. She married novelist Sinclair Lewis.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">A foreign correspondent for the </span><em style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: #202020; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">New York Evening Post</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;"> in the 1920s, she later became its bureau chief in Berlin. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">She so angered Adolf Hitler with her reporting on the Nazis, that he personally expelled her. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">Her syndicated column, </span><em style="color: #202020; font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">On the Record</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">, appeared three times a week in as many as 170 papers, and she also had a popular radio show that was listened to by overseas troops d</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">uring World War II. She died in 1961.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.47058868408203px;">In early 1944 she wrote a </span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">column on, and devoted a radio show to, the idea that soldiers fighting for the Allies needed a vision of the postwar world to motivate them. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">My uncle Willem van Stockum, then a <a href="https://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2020/07/foreign-flyers-july-10-battle-of.html" target="_blank">volunteer bomber pilot </a>at the 10 Squadron RAF base in Melbourne, Yorkshire, responded to his sister, Hilda van Stockum. He said that visions of the future do not motivate soldiers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">What motivates soldiers, Willem said, is outrage at tyranny. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">His letter to my mother on this subject was published as an article, "A Soldier's Creed," in <i>The Horn Book </i>in its Christmas 1944 issue under the authorship of "A Bomber Pilot." It has been widely referenced and quoted. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">Willem van Stockum was shot down over France in June 1944 on his sixth mission, during the week of D-Day, attacking Nazi supply lines before and after the Normandy invasion. He is buried with his crew and that of another plane shot down on the same mission, in France. A book on his life was written by Robert P. Wack, <i>Time Bomber </i>(Boissevain Books, 2014).</span></span><br />
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I didn’t join the war to improve the Universe; in fact, I am sick and tired of the eternal sermons on the better world we are going to build when this war is over. I hate the disloyalty to the past twenty years. Apparently people think that life in those twenty years, which cover most of my conscious existence, was so terrible that no-one can be expected to fight for it. We must attempt to dazzle people with some brilliant schemes leading, probably, to some horrible Utopia, before we can ask them to fight.<br />
I detest that point of view. I hate the idea of people throwing their lives away for slum-clearance projects or forty-hour weeks or security and exchange commissions. It is a grotesque and horrible thought. There are so many better ways of achieving this than diving into enemy guns. Lives are precious things and are of a different order and entail a different scale of values than social systems, political theories, or art.<br />
“Why are we not given a cause?” some people ask. I do not understand this question. It seems so plain to me. There are millions and millions of people who are shot, persecuted and tortured daily in Europe. The assault on so many of our fellow human beings makes some of us tingle with anger and gives us an urge to do something about it. That, and that alone, makes some of us feel strongly about the war. All the rest is vapid rationalization. All this talk about philosophy, the degeneration of art and literature, the poisoning of Nazi youth, which the Nazi system entails, and which we all rightly condemn, is still not the reason why we fight and why we are willing to risk our lives.<br />
Here, let us say, is a soldier. He asks himself, “Why should I die?” You would tell him: “To preserve our civilization.” When the soldier replies: “To Hell with your civilization; I never thought it so hot,” you take him up wrongly when you sit down and say to yourself: “Well, after all, maybe it wasn’t so hot,” and then brightly tap him on the shoulder and say: “Well, I’ve thought of a better idea. I know this civilization wasn’t so hot, but you go and die anyway and we’ll fix up a really good one after the war.” I say you take him up wrong because his remark: “To Hell with your civilization” doesn’t really mean that he is not seriously concerned about our civilization. He is simply revolted by the idea of dying for ANY civilization. Civilization simply isn’t the kind of thing you ever want to die for. It is something to enjoy and something to help build up because it’s fun, and that is that, and that is all.<br />
When a man jumps into the fire to save his wife he doesn’t justify himself by saying that his wife was so civilized that it was worth the risk! There is only one reason why a man will throw himself into mortal combat and that is because there is nothing else to do and doing nothing is more intolerable than the fear of death. I could stand idly by and see every painting by Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo thrown into a bonfire and feel no more than a deep regret, but throw one small, insignificant Polish urchin on the same bonfire and, by God, I’d pull him out or else. I fight quite simply for that and I cannot see what other reasons there are. At least, I can see there are reasons, but they are not the reasons that motivate me.<br />
During the first two years of the war when I was an instructor at an American University in close contact with American youth and in close contact with the vital isolationist question in the States, I often felt that there was much insincerity, conscious or unconscious, on our, the Interventionist, side of the argument. We had strong views on the danger of isolationism for the United States. We thought, rightly, that for the sake of self-interest and self-preservation the United States should take every step to ensure the defeat of the Nazi criminals. But however sound our arguments, our own motives and intensity of feeling did not spring from those arguments but from an intense passion for common righteousness and decency.<br />
Suppose it could have been proved to us at that time that the participation of the United States in the stamping out of organized murder, rape and torture in Europe could only take place at great cost to the United States, while not doing so would in no way impair her security. Would we not still have prayed that our country might do something? And would we not have been proud to see her do something?<br />
There is an appalling timidity and false shame among intellectuals. The common man in the last war went to fight quite simply as a crusader. I am not talking about politics now, I am not either asserting or denying that England declared war from purely generous and noble considerations, but I am asserting that the common man went and fought with the rape of Belgium foremost in his mind and saw himself as an avenger of wrong.<br />
After the war the common man went quietly back to his home. The intellectuals, however, upon coming back, ashamed of their one lapse of finding themselves in agreement with every Tom, Dick and Harry, must turn around and deride the things they were ready to give their lives for. As they were the only vocal group, the opinion became firmly established that the last war was a grave mistake and that anyone who got killed in it was a sucker.<br />
And now, in this war, these intellectuals are hoist with their own petard. They lack the nerve and honesty to represent the American doughboy to himself for what he is. They do not give him the one picture in his mind which would stimulate his imagination and which would make him see beyond the fatigues, the mud, the boredom and the fear. The picture is there for anyone to paint who has a gift for words. It is a simple picture and a true picture and no one who has ever sat as a small child and listened with awe to a fairy story can fail to understand. The intellectuals, however, have made fun of the picture and so they won t use It.<br />
But some day an American doughboy in an American tank will come lurching into some small Polish, Czech or French village and it may fall to his lot to shoot the torturers and open the gates of the village jail. And then he will understand.<br />
There is a lot of talk among our intellectuals about our youth. Our youth is supposed to want a change, a new order, a revolution or what not. But it is my conviction that that is emphatically NOT what our youth wants. Have you ever been in a picture house on a Saturday afternoon, when it is filled with children and some old Western movie is ending in a race of time between the hero and the villain? Have you seen the rapt attention, the glowing faces, the clenched fists? What our young men really want is to be able to give that same concentrated attention and emotional participation, this time to reality, and this time as heroes and not as spectators, that they were able to give to unsubstantial shadows, before long words and cliches had killed their imaginations. Killed them so dead that they can no longer see even reality itself imaginatively.<br />
It is up to the intellectuals to rekindle the thing they have tried to destroy. It is as simple as St. George and the Dragon. Why not have the courage to point out that St. George fought the dragon because he wanted to liberate a captive and not because he wanted to lead a better life afterwards? Some day, sometime, my picture of an American doughboy in a Polish village will become true. Wouldn’t it be better for him then to have the cross of St. George on his banner than a long rigmarole about a better world?<br />
As long as our intellectuals and leaders do not have the courage to risk being thought sentimental and out-of-date and are not willing to stress that nations as well as individuals are entitled to their acts of heroism and chivalry, they will never be able to give our youth what it needs.<br />
It is true that every fairy story ends with the words: “and they lived happily ever after.” How irritating a child would be, though, if it interrupted its mother at every sentence to ask: “But, Mummy, will they live happily ever afterwards?” It simply isn’t the point of the fairy story and it isn’t the point of this war.<br />
Presumably we won’t live happily ever after this war. But just as a fairy story helps to increase a child’s awareness and wonder at the world, so this war may make us more aware of one another. Perhaps we shall learn, and perhaps some things will be better organized. I hope so. I believe so. But only if we engage in this war with our hearts as well as our minds.<br />
<span style="font-size: 18px;">For goodness’ sake let us stop this empty political theorizing according to which a man would have to have a University degree in social science before he could see what he was fighting for. It is all so simple, really, that a child can understand it.</span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><br /></span></span>John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-17298161761109653842020-07-01T14:53:00.001-07:002020-07-09T06:37:32.464-07:00BIRTH | William Strunk Jr. of Strunk & White<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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July 1, 2020—This day in 1869 was born William Strunk Jr., born in Cincinnati, Ohio (1869). He was an English professor at Cornell, where he published his grammar book <i>The Elements of Style</i>,<br />
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He intended it as a reference for his students, and one of those students was Elwyn Brooks White. E.B. White went on to become a famous writer for the <i>New Yorker </i>(he wrote <i>Charlotte's Web</i>), and in 1957, White was commissioned to revise and expand the original grammar book. The new version of the book, commonly referred to as "Strunk & White," has sold more than 10 million copies.John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-47344300810653146592020-07-01T10:37:00.002-07:002020-07-01T21:31:11.302-07:00WOODIN | Index to Biography<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<i>I am writing a biography of William H. Woodin, the first Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was President of American Car & Foundry (ACH) in 1917-33, once one of the 20 companies of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. He was also Chairman of American Locomotive (ALCo). The book is nearing completion and here is a first stab at an index (page numbers to be inserted when the book is paginated). Thanks to Holly Chin, summer intern from Wellesley College, for her assistance with this index and with other research and publication tasks to get this book in front of the public! </i><i>John Tepper Marlin</i><br />
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">1932 General Election</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Acheson, Dean </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i>Alexander Hamilton, </i>Musical<i> </i></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">American Car & Foundry (ACF)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Armenian War </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Atherton, California </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Baltimore & Ohio Railroad </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Banks</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Berwick Railroad </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Berwick Store Company </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Berwick, Pennsylvania</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Brains Trust </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Brough, Louise, Winner of Woodin Cup </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Brown, John </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Bryan, William Jennings </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Bryn Mawr College </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Bureau of Engraving and Printing </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Bush, George W., 43rd President</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Carnegie, Andrew </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Charles I </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Cintas, Oscar Benjamin </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Civil War, U.S. </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Clark, Sarah</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Cleveland, Grover, 22nd and 24th President</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Coal</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Coin Collecting </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Columbia County, Pennsylvania</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Columbia University</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Committee on Banking and Currency</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i>Commodities Futures Modernization Act</i></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Connecticut </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Cotton, Rev. John </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Cromwell, Oliver </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Cuba</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Davenport, Rev. John </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Devon Colony, The </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Devon Yacht Club </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Dickerman, Bill</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Dickerman, Mary Louise </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Dickerman, William C. </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Diner, Hasia</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Dow Jones Industrial</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Dune House, The </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">East Hampton Presbyterian Church </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i>East Hampton Star </i></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">East Hampton, N.Y. </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Eaton, Fred </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Eaton, Theophilus</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Emergency Banking Act</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Federal Reserve Board</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Fireside Chat (FDR) </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Fletcher, Duncan, Senator </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Foster, Elizabeth </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Free Masons </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Free Silver Movement, The</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Gerli, Anne (see also Anne Harvey)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Germany </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Gibson, Althea</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Glass, Carter</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Gold Reserve Act</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Gram, Carl W.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i>Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act</i></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Great Depression, The</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Great Migration, The </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Gruelle, Johnny</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Guild Hall </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Harrington, Katherine </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Harrison, George L. </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Hartford, Connecticut</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Hartman, Sarah </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Harvey, Anne</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Harvey, Col. Olin</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Harvey, Mary </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i>Heights, The</i></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Hoffman, Mary Mae (Maisie) </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Hooker, Charles I. </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Hooker, Rev. Thomas </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Hoover, Herbert</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Hutchinson, Anne Marbury </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Hyde, Carolyne</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">International Tennis Hall of Fame (ITHF)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Iron</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">J.P. Morgan, Bank </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Jackson & Woodin </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Jackson, Col. Clarence </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Jackson, Mordecai </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Jacobs, Helen, Woodin Tennis Cup Winner</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Jahnke, Nora Hannah Morris</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">James VI</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Jessup, Annie (Nan)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Kennedy, Joe</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Kondratiev Cycle</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Kondratiev, Nikolai</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Lehman Brothers </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">London, England </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Long Island, New York </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Lord Brooke </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Mack, George</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Maidstone Club </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Mallory, Molla</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Marble, Alice</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Market Street </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Massachusetts Bay Colony </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i>Mayflowe</i>r </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">McFadden, Louis Thomas </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Mellon, Andrew</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Miller, Charles </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Mills, Ogden </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Miner, Anne Woodin</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Miner, Charlie Jr.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Miner, Charlie Sr. </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Miner, Mary “Perky” </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Moley, Raymond </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Morgenthau, Hans</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Morgenthau, Henry</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i>Nanin, The, </i>Boat owned by Woodins</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">New Haven, Connecticut </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">New York City</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">New York State</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Norbeck, Peter</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Norbert, Peter </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Olympics</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Osborne DuPont, Margaret</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Owen, Evan </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Oxford, Connecticut</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Panic of 1873 </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Panic of 1893</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Pecora Committee (see also Ferdinand Pecora)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Pecora, Ferdinand </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Pennsylvania</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Phipps, Louis E. </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Phipps, William Hamilton (Bill)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Pine Grove Cemetery <i> </i></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Poliomyelitis, Illness of FDR</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Populists </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Presbyterian</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Princeton University</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Pullman Strike</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Puritans </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Quakers</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Queen Mary Syndrome </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Raggedy Ann Songs, Music by Will Woodin</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Railway Age </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Railways</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Riomar, Vero Beach </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (FDR) </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Rowe, Billy </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Rowe, Elizabeth “Libby” Foster </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Rowe, Woody </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Russia</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">School of Mines (see also Columbia University)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Securities and Exchange Act </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Selden, William H., Sr.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Shakespeare, William </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Steagall, Henry</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Strach, Mary Harvey<i> </i></span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Stuart, Jeb</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Subject Topics </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Susquehanna River</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Thaw, William II</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Thomas, Beth (Mrs. William Woodin III)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Tucson, Arizona </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Vero Beach, Florida </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Warm Springs Foundation </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Washington, D.C.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Williams, Rev. Roger</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Wilmot, Mary </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Wilson, Woodrow </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Winthrop, John</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Woodin Cup <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Maidstone Club)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Woodin, Benjamin</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Woodin, C. R. (Clement)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Woodin, David Charles</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Woodin, Elizabeth “Libby” Foster (see Rowe, Elizabeth “Libby” Foster)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Woodin, Joseph B. </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Woodin, Milo </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Woodin, Will H. III </span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Woodin, William H. (Will)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 13px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Woodin, William H. II (Willy)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">World War I</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Yale University</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 14px; padding: 4px; width: 348px;" valign="top"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Zehnder, Charles H. </span></td></tr>
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John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-53261091431782327602020-06-21T08:15:00.001-07:002020-07-13T11:39:39.266-07:00GO DOWN MOSES | Rhodes Statues Removed... Next, Robert Moses? <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A statue of Cecil Rhodes in Capetown being removed<br />
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June 21, 2020—The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-investigation.html" target="_blank">shocking killing of George Floyd</a> has had national and global implications. It reenergized the Black Lives Matter campaign and then the long-time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Must_Fall#University_of_Oxford,_UK" target="_blank">"Rhodes Must Fall"</a> campaign for the removal of statues to Cecil Rhodes.<br />
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The campaigns, which have recruited from<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/racism-white-americans.html" target="_blank"> a wide range of voters</a>, are now <a href="https://www.newsday.com/long-island/protests-babylon-police-brutality-george-floyd-1.45933727" target="_blank">coming after the statue to Robert Moses</a> in front of the Village Hall in Babylon, New York. More about that after three paragraphs of background.<br />
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Rhodes, of course, was the Brit who had a dream of a "Capetown to Cairo" British Empire in Africa. He helped realize that dream and had two countries named after him for many decades—Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, and Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. He created the famed Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford, won by such American political successes as Senators Richard Lugar (Univ College, Oxford) and William Fulbright (Pembroke College, Oxford), and President Bill Clinton (Univ College, Oxford).<br />
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The Rhodes Must Fall campaign was successful in Capetown, South Africa, where the statue of Rhodes was lifted from its pedestal. However, the campaign to remove a statue of Rhodes at Oriel College, Oxford <a href="https://theoxbridgepursuivant.blogspot.com/2016/01/oriel-college-opts-to-keep-rhodes-statue.html" target="_blank">came to a screeching halt </a>when several alumni threatened to end their giving to Oriel if it acceded to the demands of the campaigners. At the time, the Rhodes Must Fall banner was not one that the Oriel Provost wanted to fight under. The resolution seemed reasonable—balancing the importance of keeping historical valuable monuments while facing up to the moral or other shortcomings of people who were once lionized.<br />
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What a difference the video of Floyd's killing has made! On June 9, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAvSeYyiVQA" target="_blank">a thousand RMF protesters descended on Oriel College</a>. On June 17, the governing body of Oriel College <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/rhodes-will-fall-oxford-university-remove-statue-amid-anti-racism-n1231387" target="_blank">voted to remove the statue to its alumnus, Cecil Rhodes</a>. The next day (the 78th birthday of Sir Paul McCartney), Husayn Kassai, founder of the verification company Onfido, revealed that he <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/18/rhodes-statue-tech-boss-pledges-to-cover-funds-pulled-by-racist-donors">promised to replace</a> any funding commitments withdrawn by "racist" alumni donors who object to the removal of the memorial to Rhodes.<br />
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So, now, what about Robert Moses? His biographer, Robert Caro, has famously documented the man's aggregation of power. Moses was a New York City Parks Commissioner for 26 years. He built parks and parkways all over New York City and Long Island. He used his power to promote the automobile and higher-income residents. For example, he built bridges on his parkway with low clearance, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-moses-and-his-racist-parkway-explained" target="_blank">to prevent busloads of poor people coming to use his park</a>. There is a Rhodes connection. After Yale, Moses went to Oxford (Wadham College), graduating with a degree in jurisprudence in 1911. He was not himself a Rhodes Scholar, but <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6895563/robert-moses-criticizes-rhodes/" target="_blank">he had some strong opinions about those who were Rhodes Scholars</a>. The new campaign to remove his statue in Babylon gives new meaning to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3OjHIhLCDs" target="_blank">Paul Robeson's singing of Go Down Moses</a>.<br />
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Meanwhile, the Governor of Virginia is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/rita-davis-lee-statue/2020/06/22/f8c2d46e-b168-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html" target="_blank">determined to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee</a> on his horse in Richmond. Which raises the question: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53184100" target="_blank">What happens to statues that are taken down?</a><br />
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<br />John Tepper Marlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461326883164385265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141012489954367483.post-17294468284404065452020-06-20T15:56:00.001-07:002020-06-21T08:23:05.091-07:00LONGHOUSE RESERVE | Reopening <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who is that masked visitor behind the King? (Alice Tepper Marlin at the<br />
Yoko Ono chess board, LongHouse Reserve. Photo by JT Marlin. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">June 20, 2020—LongHouse Reserve is <a href="https://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2014/08/top-ten-sites-in-east-hampton-says.html" target="_blank">the top attraction in East Hampton</a>. It has been closed during the coronavirus scourge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now it is reopening, in stages. It's now open Wednesdays and Saturdays, with limited visiting hours, reservations required and timed visits of 75 minutes. Only half the parking spaces are being used, to allow social distancing. Masks are required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Four of us went today to see recent changes. I described our visit there in 2014 as part of a <a href="https://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2014/08/wellesley-66-visits-longhouse-reserve.html" target="_blank">mini-reunion in the lead-up to the 50th Reunion of the Wellesley Class of 1966</a>. We go back pretty much every year and it's always a new experience because new sculptures are added, old ones are moved around and the landscaping is always changing.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cross in the Pond. This is reminiscent of the 9/11 memorial pool in New York<br />
City. Photo courtesy of Stephanie Loehr, who was with us on the visit.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The interlude when the coronavirus kept everyone away was used to good effect by bringing the landscaping to an even higher level of perfection than we have seen in earlier years.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fly Vision, 360. Photo courtesy of <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of the sculptures seemed to be new, but were possibly there in previous years but I overlooked them. At left is one with the photographer looking back from a pole full of convex mirrors. It gave me the feeling of looking at the eye of a fly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My favorite sculpture was and is Yoko Ono's colorless chess set. It's a No-Logo experience, i.e., blank battle standards, borderless territory. With no way of being sure who The Enemy is or where the borders are, the game loses its point. Which is... The point. Imagine. The Fog of Peace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Which reminds me that Paul McCartney celebrated his 78th birthday on Thursday. Happy Birthday, Sir Paul.</span><br />
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