Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Coolidge settled back in his old green wicker rocker just before leaving White Pine Camp, and droned along for an hour or more, opening his heart to a curly-headed man with angelic eyes (TIME, Oct. 4); and when the angelic one, Publicist Bruce Barton, discoverer of a Man and of a Book that Nobody Knows, went forth and told The People all the homely facts that the President had revealed about himself, it seemed that nothing but good could come of it to every one. The President was apparently one of the most contented mortals ever heard...
Three men sat on the porch of the Coolidges' cottage at White Pine Camp on that last afternoon before the President left for Washington. Mr. Coolidge settled down comfortably in an old green wicker rocker, pushed his felt hat back on his head, talked. A secretary sat on a kitchen chair, scribbled busily. Bruce Barton, famed advertising man and magazine writer (TIME, Sept. 27) sat on the floor, listened, asked questions. The pine breath of the woods and the distant shadows of the Adirondacks seemed to purr in contented harmony...
Gillette. Last week the Gillette Safety Razor Co. had reason to be twice pleased, once because it was the silver anniversary of the founding of the company by King Camp Gillette in 1901, again when it was officially announced by Great Britain that Gillette razors would henceforth be standard equipment for the army...
...Presidential party was 15 minutes early, so they waited in the automobile, surrounded by four bird cages and the two collies, before the special six-car train was ready. The engine hissed, the piston began to churn; the President waved goodbye to Gabriel (a town near White Pine Camp), Mrs. Coolidge filmed the natives with her cinema machine...
...What advertising man, who tries to make the Bible and Jesus understandable to everybody, was the last guest at White Pine Camp...