Word: calvin
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...good voice and a "knowledge of musical terms." He had to be coached on the music terms, but the rich syrup of his voice was a natural. He covered the funeral of William Jennings Bryan ("My hardest job-I hate funerals"), the 1924 Democratic Convention, and the inauguration of Calvin Coolidge. In 1927, he was the first to broadcast an Atlantic City beauty contest ("I fell in love with Miss Oklahoma...
...Atlanta's Southern Regional Council, Inc., one of the South's most effective race-relations groups. Dr. George Sinclair Mitchell, the council's executive director, thought up the idea and collected 1,000 clippings of "racial news" from Southern papers. Then 29-year-old Associate Editor Calvin Kytle of the weekly Calhoun, Ga. Times turned out the booklet...
Babb, Maurice of 708 South Elizabeth Street, Wichita, Kan.; North High, Wichita, Bair, Glenn Otis of 516 South Glenn Street, Wichita; North High. Benecke, Walter Ernest of 4532 Grant Street, Omaha, Neb.; Benson High, Omaha. Bigler, Frank Calvin of 121 North Emporia Street, El Dorado, Kan.; El Dorado Senior High...
...Calvin Coolidge, a kindred soul, might have called Dutra a "tight spitter." Brazil's President speaks, almost grudgingly, out of the corner of his mouth; he has no small talk. Officers of his staff once maneuvered him into a car with a colonel who was his runner-up for the title of the army's most taciturn officer, and asked the chauffeur to keep track of the conversation. Not a word passed between them on the drive from Rio's Catete Palace to Santos Dumont airport. As the car drove through the airport gate, the colonel muttered...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Abraham Lincoln currently command top market prices-$125 and up-for holograph letters by U.S. Presidents, the weekly Antiquarian Bookman announced. A Herbert Hoover draws about the same as a George Washington ($100 up). Calvin Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson rate around $35 each; Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt, $10. A genuine pre-1945 Harry Truman goes at around $50 the holograph, neck & neck with a genuine Warren G. Harding...