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...registered at a Rochester hotel, asked how to proceed to Ward's. The clerk confessed ignorance. "Young man," the visitor bellowed indignantly, "I've come all the way from Australia and there are just two things in America I wanted to see. One was the Grand Canyon, and one was Ward...
...radio behind the President was ready to broadcast the sound of Colorado River water rushing from twelve 7-ft. valves, spilling 180 ft. down into the canyon below the dam. But at first the only response to his noble invocation was silence. Someone had blundered. Secretary Marvin Mclntyre made a hasty exit. Then after a short delay the radio gulped, began a mighty Brrrrrrrrr! A moment later Mr. Mclntyre reported: "Doc Smithers [White House telegrapher] flashed the dam, 'Did you get it?' And they came back 'Yes. There's water all over the place...
...East let herself out more freely lately when she stood on a pinnacle over-looking the Grand Canyon, played The Last Round-Up "in memory of my friendship for Will Rogers." Her wind at an altitude of 8,000 feet was so amazing to a cowboy that he said: "Lady, I think you're wonderful. We've never had a prizefight that lasted more than two rounds up here and I think you lasted about nine with that horn!" When not trumpeting Mrs. East runs a bookstore on the University of California's campus...
Stern's freedom from the stuffier forms of British insularity, will applaud her enthusiasm over the Grand Canyon, the Mt. Wilson Observatory, the Marx Brothers. Litterateurs will admire her fondness for Jane Austen, deprecate her passion for the Elsie Dinsmore books. Newsy nosers will note her family were well-to-do London
...them in San Francisco in 1877. In the preceding summer the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians had been driven westward out of the Black Hills by U. S. troops sent to avenge the Custer massacre, and for the first time a miner's scalp was safe in Gold Run Canyon, site of the first prospecting. The rich lodes at Homestake soon grew richer as the shafts drove deeper. Astutely managed after George Hearst's death by his shrewd widow, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and after 1914 by her cousin's son, retiring Edward Hardy Clark, who is still president...