Speaking Up
Lady Astor, the House of Commons' uppity, downright, Virginia-born viscountess, vowed that not even V-E day would wean her from teetotalism: "Sometimes I am tempted, but I do not fall."
Arturo Toscanini, rejecting a "loving appeal" for his return to Milan and its La Scala Opera, broadcast an unminced reply: "I shall be happy to return among you as a citizen of a free Italy, but not as a subject of the degenerate king and the princes of the House of Savoy. ... All the vestiges of a past of ignominy and treachery must disappear."
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, 62, for twelve years...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
