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LeTourneau's dual occupation seems natural enough to him. Born to devout parents in Richford, Vt., he had three maternal uncles who were ministers, two missionary sisters. At 51 he is a bald, rugged six-footer who looks not unlike Presidential Aspirant Robert Alphonso Taft. He has frequent fits of temper, but he neither smokes, drinks nor swears, likes to lend his loud, bass voice to a revival audience and shout: "Gone, gone, gone, gone. Yes my sins are gone...
...month their drive had netted $300,371, including $70,000 from Manhattan's opulent Juilliard Foundation. Small contributions of $1 up, from miners, sailors, truck drivers, waiters and music critics, were expected to produce $300,000. A gift of $10,000 came from Switzerland. Last week ex-King Alphonso of Spain, mindful of the time when the Met had raised $50,000 at a benefit for the University City of Madrid, promised a fat check. Total at week's end: $465,061. Chiefly responsible: Mrs. August Belmont, noble of voice and mien; handsome George A. Sloan, who married...
...Robert Alphonso Taft, TIME'S thanks for putting the record straight...
...wise guys who have been whispering, "Wait and see-Taft will fade out, then throw his support to Bricker," Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft and Governor John William Bricker had an answer last week. In Washington, they threw their arms around each other. Governor Bricker, once called a dark horse, said he was a horse of another color, would support Taft to the "last ditch." He frowned officially on a Chicago "Bricker-for-President" headquarters. Still some of the wise guys merely winked...
...Dimple. Their elder son was Robert Alphonso Taft, born Sept. 8, 1889 in a Victorian house with colored-glass windows and scroll-trimmed porches in Cincinnati's Walnut Hills, on a bluff above the yellow Ohio River. Robert did not inherit the Taft dimple. His younger brother, Charles Phelps, got that, as well as his father's famous ability to chuckle along with people, make friends, have...