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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leonard Wood's ancestry is unique. He is descended from four of the 22 heads of family that arrived on the Mayflower, from the first child born at Plymouth. Fifty ancestors fought in colonial wars, and many in every war won by the Stars and Stripes...
...Born in 1860, in a Massachusetts sea coast village, Leonard's first ambitions were nautical. He was graduated from Harvard an M.D. The rules of the hospital to which he was attached provided that no interne could perform an operation. One day the ambulance brought in an injured child. Wood operated to save life, saved it, was fired. So he went into the Army, was sent out west, applied for a regular fighting job, got it, chased Geronimo, last of the Indian fighters, shared with General Lawton full credit for his capture...
...eyes of the infant and the primitive race Nature presents a chactic activity that at first glance is terrifying and bewilderingly disjointed. In both cases adolescence brings a certain sophistication in regard to this chaos and at the same time a desire to introduce order. A vague suspicion is born that perhaps after all a clearer perspective will make possible a deduction of true values that remain untouched by the whirling flux of events. The child has become a philosopher. And it may be said that the hall mark of civilization has always been its ability to contribute...
...Selfridges. Harry Gordon Selfridge Jr., handsome son of U. S.-born and trained Harry Gordon Selfridge and persistently a U. S. citizen, last week on arrival in Manhattan for a brief business inspection, enunciated a new principle of selling in his father's enormous London emporium: Salespersons will address customers by name; will maintain good will...
...Born, To Charles Spencer Chaplin a second son by his second wife, the onetime Lita Grey, at the Chaplin estate, Beverley Hills, Calif. Their first child, Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., is about a year...