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...President of the United States labored up the long ramp to the Speaker's dais, leaning on the arm of his military aide Major General Edwin M. Watson. He grasped the edge of the reading stand with one big hand, discarded his thick mahogany cane, slapped down his old black notebook. For two minutes his audience-the Congressmen, the diplomats, the Cabinet, the dignitaries and plain people in the galleries-applauded for this stouthearted man who cannot walk, yet does...
...Porter broke both his legs in a riding accident. With his legs in casts, and facing amputation of one, he wrote the music for You Never Know in a record-breaking four weeks. He has undergone 30 operations on his legs since, still has both, gets about with a cane...
...girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...
...Bergh was granted police powers by New York State authorities, soon became the terror of all horse drivers. He would go into battle in a high silk hat, waxed moustaches, gleaming gold scarf pin, yellow kid gloves, Prince Albert coat. When he pointed his accusing cane, police would drag an offending driver from his seat, haul him into court. If drivers argued, Bergh often knocked their heads together with his own well-manicured hands...
...Tokyo correspondent of the two most formidably restrained newspapers in the world, the London Times and the New York Times, Hugh Byas could afford not to be a hawker of sensations. In late years it was a rare sight to see the red-faced Scot walk with his heavy cane into the lobby of the Imperial Hotel and sit down with the rumor factors there. He never rushed down to Yokohama to find a friend in the saloon of a luxury liner and ask him to smuggle out an item that would burn up the mails. He always quoted sources...