Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Curious IQ obsession

Warren G. Magnuson's funeral:

[FROM THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, MAY 26, 1989]

Goodbye to the Last of the True New Dealers

(BY JOHN DE YONGE)
At first it was a solemn affair, Maggie's funeral yesterday, beautiful. There was the march of prelates, with Mrs. Magnuson and the family, into the great white enclosure of St. Mark's Cathedral, the mourners standing, the organ and choir resounding, and the senator's remains in a flag-draped coffin carried by former staffers of his, dark-suited, somber, none of them with an IQ under 129.
Feynman would not have qualified.