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Broadcasts Of Father Charles: In addition, radio in the 1930's was marked by excesses that broadcasters and audiences probably would not tolerate today. Coverage of the Hauptmann trial for the kidnapping of the Lind-bergh baby in 1935 was so circuslike that in 1937 the American Bar Association adopted its Canon 35, arguing for the banning of microphones and photographers from any court room. Demagoguery flourished in the broadcasts of Father Charles E. Coughlin (q.v.). Huey Long (q.v.) used radio to organize a "Share-Our-Wealth" movement.
In sculpture, the greatest name from the group of gifted men around Gustav III was Johan Tobias Sergel, whose masterly statue of that long you may see on the quay below the Royal Palace in Stockholm. That massive palace, by the way, built in its present form for Charles XI in the 17th century from designs by a father and son, chiefly the son, who were both named Nicodemus Tessin, is a considerable architectural masterpiece. The father-and-son team did not stop with this one work but achieved a lot of other fine structures in Stockholm and its neighborhood in the French-Italian style then popular. Drottningholm Palace is another of their works done for royalty, in this case for the widow of Charles X.
"Charles, who is overweight, has probably inherited this tendency from his father."
"Harry is not very bright. He is also bad tempered and easily discouraged if things do not go as he wishes. His mother says he takes after his father."
"Patricia is very bright because her father is a judge and her grandfather was a governor. Unfortunately, tuberculosis runs in her mother's family, so Patricia is doomed to have a short life." |
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