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First Lady. When the Hoovers moved into the White House in 1929, Lou Hoover was the most cosmopolitan First Lady of this century. She tore the executive mansion apart, refurbished it from top to bottom, much of it with the Hoovers' own money. She entertained on a more lavish scale than any of her predecessors. In Forty-Two Years in the White House, Chief Usher Irwin ("Ike") Hoover decribed a normal day's schedule: "A large lunch, a tea or two, possibly one at four-thirty and another at five-thirty, and a dinner of from...
Ralph 124C 41+ and Immortality. Born in Luxembourg, Hugo took an electric bell apart at the age of six. At 13 he was allowed to install a telephone system in a Luxembourg convent (he says he got a special dispensation to enter it from Pope Leo XIII). At 22, having moved to Manhattan, he built one of the first amateur wireless transmitters with which he could ring a bell a quarter of a mile away. But then Hugo's imagination began outstripping his technical resources...
...drenched with fear. When they decided to have a child, Victoria was conscious of an odd chilliness crawling slowly over her skin, suddenly realized: "She had never liked to be touched by anyone. . . . She did not love Niles Grandolet. . . ." After their son was born, Niles and Victoria lived apart...
...Highway. Even more illogical to the Committee is the vast horde of trucks held by the War Department, while the 4,500,000 civilian trucks are rapidly falling apart. This year civilian truckers got only 54,000 new trucks, about one-tenth their 1941 truck replacements, and only 31,000 vehicles are left in the reserve pool...
...Sano says that cut livers will stick together fairly well without her glue but are likely to come apart because of bleeding. Her glue stops bleeding...