Word: calvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Motorola President Robert Calvin afraid of losing the U.S. lead in electronics. "The foreign competitor who has finally found out how to make a TV set will no longer find a market here, because we've already found out how-to hang one on a wall," says Galvin, whose sales are $260 million, best ever. Another sign that quality can be sold: Paris' George V Hotel stocks a claret that bears the label, "Beaulieu Vineyard, Napa Valley, Calif...
...Evie were married in March 1924 in Washington's most glittering society wedding of the year, with President Calvin Coolidge and the First Lady among the array of guests...
...ponderous electric hobby horse, on which Calvin Coolidge took frequent constitutionals while in the White House, was presented to the Forbes Library in Coolidge's home town, Northampton, Mass., where Coolidge's widow Grace dwelt until her death in 1957. The 220-volt contraption, on which Silent Cal often played cowboy with the chief of his personal Secret Service guards, is triple-gaited and can also pitch as if going over jumps. It will be put to pasture in the library's Coolidge Room...
When Charles Hopkinson was portraying Calvin Coolidge, he tried to animate the President's Vermont-granite features by inquiring into one of the great crises in Coolidge's life: "What was your first thought, Mr. President, when you heard that Harding had died?" Without any change of expression Coolidge twanged: "I thought I could swing...
...House and State Department. Reid's bipartisan White House favorites: Harry Truman and Grace Coolidge. Of Harry: "He got up every morning at 6, and we'd stop the train so he could take his walk." Of Gourmand Warren Gamaliel Harding: "He'd eat anything." Of Calvin Coolidge: "He never used to say much, except when he read the papers he'd grunt, 'I thought...