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...First Son of the Land". . . . Others whispered that Colonel Starling's prime duty was to prevent Son John from eloping with Florence Trumbull, daughter of the Governor of Connecticut. At his home in Plainville, Conn., Governor Trumbull did not hesitate to announce that such a rumor was "absolutely bunk." John Coolidge first met Miss Trumbull at his father's inauguration in March, 1925, and has been paying court ever since, visiting her at Mount Holyoke College and at her home...
...best known novels are Bunk and Lottery...
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...aboard the collier Anthony O. Boyle of Quincy, Mass., one Martin Ward crawled into his forecastle bunk and fell asleep. From the bunk above Seaman Ward's issued the stertorous breathing of a 250-lb. shipmate, also slumbering. Waves lapped and buffeted the collier's hull. Timbers creaked. Into the monotonous orchestration of the forecastle's night sounds crept a small cracking note, a rip, a split, a smothered crash. Ward awoke, in intense pain. His brain flashed: "Shipwreck! Drowning:!" Then a terrible weight lifted as the 250-pound shipmate removed his person and his bunk from...
...last week I said: 'I deeply regret the false impression given to the press by a statement which I made (TIME, Oct. 11) concerning the Sherwood Eddy mission to Russia of which I was a member. I did not say that the Eddy mission was "filled full of bunk." I meant to say that it was almost impossible to get into the real heart of the Russian people. I fully agreed with and signed the letter sent to President Coolidge (recommending U. S. recognition of Russia) which was signed by members of the Eddy mission...