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...remnants of the team will group around a potent nucleus composed of goalie Bill Wright and star midfielders John Sawhill, Jack Calhoun, and Lee Sosman...
...letters who had perhaps mellowed too young and been boyish too long and whom his fierce contemporary, Fenimore Cooper, then regarded as something of a humbug. Sympathetic Biographer Bowers says his reports on the corrupt and precarious Spanish court made good reading for Secretaries of State Webster and Calhoun. But there is a hint of tragicomedy in the fact that Irving often got no replies, especially to his expense accounts, and that finally his stately letter of resignation was not even acknowledged for eight months...
...North and the South in 1850 were tired and exhausted with the heat of the great debate that had killed Calhoun, and sent Clay and Webster to their death-beds. The Compromise had been passed, and the two great empires within an empire went to their corners to bind up their wounds. The delicious calm and relaxation that follows struggle had enveloped them. The conciliatory spirit of Clay, that sprang from the open meadows and wooded streams of the Blue Grass of Kentucky, had prevailed over both the hot blood of South Carolina and the brawling abolitionism of the North...
Married. Major Graham Christopher Dugas, unearther of a $40,000,000 gold lode in abandoned Calhoun mine, Dahlonega, Ga., subsequent quick-purchaser of a new gold-trimmed, custom-built car; and Mrs. Bessie Brady Bellinger; in Atlanta...
...States was a cosmic incident but not the end of the world. Savannah and Decatur (doomed to be a mere suburb), Macon and Augusta might mourn the life that was gone; Atlanta had business to do: rebuilding, shipping to and from the whole southeastern U. S., as John Calhoun had foretold, growing to 22,000 by 1870, 89,872 by 1900. Georgians who were not Atlantans had a saying: "If the folks in Atlanta could suck as hard as they can blow, they would suck the ocean up to their city limits and have a harbor!" At its vital crossroad...