Children of Power [antikvár]

sam taylor bought the house on highland place in 1947 when he first moved to Washington from Wisconsin. It was a Victorian clapboard farmhouse, painted white, with turrets and stained glass windows, built by Senator Percy from Rhode Island the same year that ground was broken for the cathedral, half a mile up the road. Senator Percy had died there although he had intended to return to Rhode Island in his retirement, the house went to a Supreme Court justice who was robbed and beaten one September afternoon on his own front steps. An actress whose name did not survive except on the deed lived there with her companion in the thirties and sold the house to one of Roosevelt's people, a Jew, who was the first Jew to buy a house on Highland Place. He was an intellectual man with an accent, the neighbors said. His family was German. Shortly after the end of the war, he died unexpectedly, and his widow sold the house to Sam Taylor. On one of the rough cement walls in the basement of the house, there was a child's painting of a former occupant, a florid-faced man with black hair and the enormous furry body 3