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Local Republicans, frisking about him like cherubs in a progress of Apollo, whisked beaming Bob Taft over to G.O.P. county headquarters. There some 4,000 cheering party workers had stomped through a snowstorm to hear him. Taft gave them a rousing pep talk for the approaching municipal elections. Cried he: "We have the issues and will have them in 1952. I don't know who the presidential candidate will be." The crowd...
...swear by Apollo the physician and by Aesculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses . . ." Beginning with these words, budding doctors for centuries have solemnly taken the ponderous Hippocratic oath-upon graduation. Modern physicians still pledge themselves to "keep [this oath] according to my ability and my judgment...
When he entered the Naval Academy he was 16, and younger than most of his classmates. His grades, mediocre at first, got better every year. The 1916 Lucky Bag (Academy yearbook) said: "Raddy came to us as a child-a pink-cheeked Apollo; since then he has been fooling people." The yearbook entry mentioned Radford's prowess with "drags" (i.e., girls), and sketched a disaster that happened in his second year-"he got a smoking pop with a hop only a week off"-which means that he was disciplined for out-of-bounds smoking and missed a dance...
...hothouse orchid. She had curls, said one visitor, which were "like the pendent ears of a water spaniel, and poor little hands, so thin that when she welcomed you she gave you something like the foot of a young bird." Browning himself, with his big, bumped nose, was scarcely Apollo reincarnate. And Old Man Barrett, though rather like an ogre, was hardly as black as hell's chimney after all; Elizabeth called him "Sweet Puppy...
After her Apollo visit, Ella was heading downtown for her annual three-week session at the Paramount (at $3,250 a week), then out to the West Coast. Still at the top of the heap, Ella has a simple explanation for her success: "People like...