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Coney Island was not always the garish proletarian mecca it is today. Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Sam Houston, other aristocrats disported themselves on its then remote plage. Walt Whitman too was crazy about it: "The long bare unfrequented shore ... I had all to myself . . . where I loved after bathing to race up and down...
...early January, the First, now 70% up to division strength, was ready to start the job it had come to do. Off Guantanamo now lay four big transports and the converted destroyers Calhoun, Gregory and Little. For days & nights on end the outfit practiced using small boats, getting on & off the transports...
...FILL CALHOUN...
...girls cares to hand over the picture to the other, and their artistic competition results in a standoff. Miss Faye, now somewhat more mature than Miss Grable, has the better voice; Miss Grable the slimmer wriggle. The rest of the activity centres around two Irish song publishers, Calhoun and Harrigan (fat Jack Oakie and thin John Payne), who contribute respectively comic and romantic relief. When Author Pamela Harris' plot pushes them into the A. E. F., the time arrives for America, I Love You, Goodbye Broadway, Hello France...
Dumbarton Oaks stands just across Rock Creek from the nation's capital. The house was built about 1800 and was long the home of John C. Calhoun of North Carolina, as Senator, Secretary of War, and Vice-President. A plot of land was deeded with the mansion, but the largest part of the property surrounding the house has been presented to the District of Columbia as a public park...