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...Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, Harvard 1854, nephew of J.R.L., killed in action in 1864 at Cedar Creek, Va., an engagement in which Captain William McKinley and Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes also fought. Had Lowell survived, suggests Greenslet, he might have been a better bet for the White House than either, and "Massachusetts would have had a president midway between John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge...
Kaiser has been hauling most of his ore 185 miles from low-grade diggings at Kelso, Calif., the rest 500 miles from Cedar City, Utah. Eagle Mountain, rising naked on the edge of the Mojave Desert, is only 153 miles from Fontana, is rich enough to supply Kaiser with low-cost, high-grade ore for at least 50 years...
...will putter about his fruit trees. He likes to look off east toward the Evangelical church, where, as a boy, during the interminable sermons, he traded jackknives behind the pews, and where rain, snow or shine the Kuesters still worship every Sunday. He likes to see the pine-and cedar-sheltered church graveyard, a tranquil reminder that the life which the earth gives must in the end return to the earth. There two generations of his neighbors and family are buried...
...announce it, he called a meeting in Hampton's grey agricultural hall. Farmers drove in from miles around. Villagers turned out by the score. Colonel Ryder told them: Hampton should erect a factory to turn out "rounds and squares" (chair rungs, desk legs) from nearby stands of spruce, cedar, pine and birch. The factory would serve as a memorial to 18 Hamptonians who had died in World War II. It would provide jobs for about 50 of Hampton's 187 overseas veterans...
When he goes home, Di Gates will have finished his second big job for the Navy. A Cedar Rapids, Iowa boy who had starred on Yale football teams in 1915 and '16, he was one of the early U.S. naval aviators of World War I. Thrice decorated, he was shot down by the Germans in France. Captured, he escaped, made his way toward the Swiss frontier and then, three days before the Armistice, was captured again. His peacetime career was equally spectacular-he became the New York Trust's president at 33. He went to Washington...