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Willie was taught to play by his mother, herself a pianist and organist of some local repute, and he attracted his first large audiences when, aged 20, he joined the 350th Field Artillery and banged his way from Camp Dix to France and back. On the strictly military phase of his service with the 350th, The Lion's recollections sound like a blend of Caesar's Gallic Wars and Alice in Wonderland. "Very few soldiers volunteered to go up to the front and fire a French 75," he declares, "and of those who did-few returned. The Lion...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt entrained in Washington to attend the celebration of Virginia Dare's 350th birthday. At Roanoke he and North Carolina's Governor Clyde Roark Hoey enjoyed the sight of a New Deal project, a new Fort Raleigh, erected by WPA. Then the President climbed upon a flag-bedecked stage and launched on one of his favorite themes, a modern political parable to a historical incident which he used as a broadsword to slash his political enemies...
...quaint old town of Leyden, lying midway between The Hague and Haarlem, the lofty tower of the Hooglandsche Kerk looked down upon gala scenes: the university, founded by William of Orange in 1575, was celebrating its 350th birthday...