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...year-old Major General Henry Clay Hodges Jr., class of 1881, and it was a very gay proceeding. "Oh look," the President yelled, when he saw Mamie applauding with the crowd; the President doffed the dented grey hat and swept it gracefully across his middle, essaying a courtly bow. "Hey, Ike," came a shout from another quarter, and there stood Richard and James ("Shorty") Walsh, wizened, pixylike Irishmen who had worked 50 years in the West Point tailor's shop, and remembered fitting the Eisenhower uniform when the President was a plebe back in 1911. For a military...
Last week, deprived of the riches his greedy impatience had cost him, Rodwell Patience, ex-butler, stood in a dock at Norwich and heard himself sentenced to six years in prison. "Thank you, my lord," he said with an impeccable bow when the judge had finished...
...French ship poked its bow into the Gulf of Tunis, a small, dark-eyed man in red tarboosh and grey business suit stared at the distant mountains and sobbed nervously. Habib Bourguiba, frail, 51-year-old leader of Tunisia's Neo-Destour and father of Tunisian nationalism, was returning in triumph to his country. It was the peak of a lifetime of struggle, over ten years of it spent in exile or French prisons...
Regarding every day Cambridge, Clara Bow and Mary Pickford appeared regularly at the University Theatre; Willie Hoppe, Bill Tilden, and George M. Cohan appeared in Lucky Strike advertisements; Langrock, Browning King, and J. August...
...Bobtailed Cruiser." At the commissioning in Bremerton Navy Yard, the Navy appropriately christened its prototype ship the U.S.S. Carronade, after a snub-nosed naval cannon developed in Scotland in 1779. The Carronade looks sawed in half-it has an awesome, cruiser-like bow with eight rocket launchers planted on a forward deck which slants downward to the steel-skinned superstructure, then ends abruptly. It looks, in the words of the Carronade's crewmen, like "a bobtailed cruiser...