MILWAUKEE JOURNAL REPORTER IN INTERVIEW OF PHIL. WIFE, DR. FOX
Milwaukee Journal Reporter in Interview of Phil, Wife, Dr. Fox From Milwaukee Journal Philip Fox La Follette and his wife f?rtt on ihe shady porch of the old La Follette home on Lake Mendota. "He...
...It's a cigarette...
...My wife...
...La Follette was r senior majoring in sociology they were among the organizers of the Walrus club, where they talked about "shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and Kings" every Sunday nl$ht In the women's building...
...told andthere isn't much that Phil La Follette gets more fun out of than a good story...
...A Hasty Message The telephone rang and...
...La Follette admits...
...I might have married a rich man if I'd gone there...
...It shall not even be revealed what Mr...
...sitting at the dining room table with its bowl of fragrant catalpa flowers, ale for lunch...
...La Follette said he would attend to it...
...That couch was always sticky...
...is a, very well behaved car and Mr...
...Will it be any cheaper," he asked Davidson, if you make it just head and shoulders instead of full length?' •Well," Phil La Follette...
...I wasn't either, but I heard that his employer told him not to drink and he got mad and took one drink just to show him and then his employer got mad and told him he was through...
...La Folic tie's family whether she should go to the University of Wisconsin or Leland Stanford, but since Leland Stanford was crowded the first year she came to Wisconsin...
...There's1 a sand pile in the back of the La Follette house, where Robert Marion La Follette...
...a little sheepishly...
...PYank were sitting at one end of ihp room, and Mr...
...Mellon.' he said, 'Mr...
...La Follette answered, "that your father did...
...Phil never comes to see the old doctor that he doesn't go right up and kiss htin...
...4, is wont, to scoop up sand and besprinkle the qolden head of his sister...
...Say...
...said Phil La Follette pleasantly but positive...
...how-do you do...
...This can he said, however, he cats quickly, as though he wanted to get things out of the way so he could talk...
...He likes history and biography...
...Mrs...
...Fox wouldn't say that...
...The other car has to stop...
...La Follette came back with "There's a telegram from Bob and he says that the second page, beginning 'The thoughtful citizen,' Is not in the envelope...
...When he has the right of way he gives no quarter...
...was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity) and at the Alpha Phi house, her sorority, and "Phil used to pretend he was a sophomore...
...When Phil La Follette was in law school at the University of Wisconsin a,nd Mrs...
...That's the way it was...
...White haired Dr...
...Anything that depends on the whim of the masses...
...It Might Have Been "If I'd started there...
...It's Uncle Phil' with him always...
...Coolidge and Mrs...
...One About Coolidge Then Mr...
...by driving three miles from Madison in his Ford sedan...
...Bob...
...too expensive both in time and money...
...finding no ash tray handy, crushed out his cigarette on the cement floor of the porch, "this was Jo Davidson's answer...
...Both of them are enthusiastic about the picture "With Byrd at Ihe South Pole," but Phil La Follette says the best movie he ever saw was an old silent one...
...cupping his hand to his ear...
...You go into the study to look at some, and "Don't, sit on that leather couch," says Phil La Follette...
...It was time for his nap...
...18-month-old Judith Bacon La Follette...
...They talk about Aunt Nancy's first husband's second cousin...
...said Mrs...
...Folate's scuffed little shoes on the porch floor, and In two Jerks out pops the little boy himself, sleepy eyed in green and white, pajamas...
...La Folletle...
...Golf's a great game, he says, but he found it...
...You know...
...He has a great admiration for achievement, and when he was a boy...
...This one he got from Glenn Frank...
...Frank and Mr...
...Follette takes you out...
...he starts out, leaning back in his chair, "was telling me a story about Andrew Mellon...
...as it was in the Walrus club days They talk of A. E., the Irish port, about airplanes, about the movies...
...The first thing Mellon asked was How much will it cost?' "A price was named, and Mellon thought it pretty high...
...La Follette recalls how he used to ride a horse In from the farm to school in Madison...
...he says, "will leave you In the lurch in the end...
...Now wouldn't...
...he got lit...
...La Follette smiled...
...He wants you to send it by air mail...
...Why...
...But Phil's wife knows he could no more keep out of politics than he could keep from breathing...
...Mrs...
...When Ihe Franks were visiting the Coolidges up at the Brule...
...Well, the president had asked Frank what, he was doing, and Frank, thinking he had the president's completr attention, took the question in good faith and began to tell him...
...Coolidge who had been speaking of Zona Gale...
...La Follette is a very good driver...
...They were talking about arrangements for a bust of Mellon...
...Mellon, we do not sell art by the yard.' " You reach the La Follette farm, if Mr...
...He plays no favorites where the La Fol-lettes are concerned...
...What's that...
...says Mary McDonald...
...The rooms of the hoifse are thick with them...
...But Phil La Follette does it unreproved and almost unconsciously, you think, when he's telling a story...
...Instead of collecting stamps or birds' nests, he collected autographed photographs of famous men...
...Golfing Too Expensive The Maple Bluff Country club is at the left of the farm, but the golf course might as well be In Siam for all the attention it gets from Mr...
...Bob chanted merrily, and was so pleased wilh the sound of that that he kept on chanting It all the way up to bed...
...her husband took it up, "wouldn't, that have been unfortunate for you...
...Bob's father hadn't gone far, however...
...said Phil La...
...he asked, pointing to a cigarette butt on the porch floor near the chair where hLs father had been sitting...
...he got in the Ford and drove away...
...He didn't get lit," she finished...
...La Follette, who had heard the same story from another friend, disagreed...
...Always Quick, Bright People In Madison who know Phil La Follette say he does everything quickly...
...for breakfast...
...La Follette just one condition was set...
...You'll stick lo it...
...La Follette, and Mrs...
...1 suppose I should have gone right on and taken my degree and never come here at all...
...describing various projects and Coolidge would keep nodding...
...It was a good story, anyhow, when between them they got it...
...The progressive candidate for governor grinned...
...La Follette these daj's...
...He had to set back to his law office then, so in a few minute...
...Mischievous...
...The Patriot," with Emil Jannings...
...La Follette would stay out of politics...
...Jo Davidson, the sculptor who did a bust, of my father...
...He got lit...
...Phil, you weren't there...
...There was some trouble, of course, and he lost his job...
...Healthy children, all of them...
...This writer will go further In compliance...
...and lie's 33...
...Fox tells you...
...They talk about books—"I'm not strong on poetry.'' Mr...
...Who put it there...
...How-do-hulloa...
...said his mother...
...In a few minutes the car came back up Ihe bumpy road...
...and he wants an opinion of a Crane watereolor that hangs in one room...
...No...
...conlem-platina the firm La Follette Hps and the jutting La Follette nose, remembering the La Follette tradition, you feel quite sure that "the thoughtful citizen" will be neither seriously neglected nor forgotten when Phil La Follette starts campaigning...
...Of course...
...Yes...
...La Follftte says, they used to chaperon parties at the Beta house tPhi...
...he didn't get lit...
...Fox, for Phils sake, wishes Mr...
...He went on...
...Oh, I don't know...
...He's gone...
...how it's possible to listen with one ear to one conversation and with the other to another...
...she said...
...Well, they wouldn't have been healthy If they hadn't been.'' "To this duy...
...Bob came down rosy from his nap...
...Follette, telling a story about a temperamental actor that he had heard from a friend...
...I'm afraid...
...Zona's good looking, isn't she?' " When arrangements were made for the interview with Mr...
...they're all his favorites, "They were all cute babies," Dr...
...Just as he was getting warmed up to his subject, he noticed a gleam of interest on the president's face and across the room to Mrs...
...Frank and Mrs...
...It's seven years now that they've been married, and talk in their home Is still pretty much of "cabbages and kings...
...Mrs...
...You won't do that, sort of thing, will you...
...says Phil La Follette...
...Dropping Ashes Freely There is no promise in the announcement of his candidacy that, if he is nominated and elected all Wisconsin husbands may sprinkle cigarette ashes freely on the floor...
...who brought all the La Follette babies into the world, and for whom Phil is named, delving back Into the memories of 90 years, says Phil was always a quick, bright little fellow...
...answering j it...
...They talk about art...
...I forgot 'the thoughtful citizen,' " said Phil La Follette...
...his mother told him...
...Phil's brother, he was like a lump of butter...
...La Follette thinks of another story...
...They talk about the mechanistic civilization and the artificiality of modern life...
...When they were just married and living in Madison...
...There's a croquet mallet and a little red sand bucket and one of Robert Marion La...
...Coolidge called...
...Fox's housekeeper...
...Coolidcc at ihe other...
...Bob demanded...
...he said, "has an aversion to stories about what people eat...
...Brighter than the rest of them...
...he says...
...It was a question in Mrs...
Vol. 1 • July 1930 • No. 32
