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...lived in Independence, Mo. before he lived in the White House. On Memorial Day. after placing a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, he slipped off for a family party on the presidential yacht Williamsburg. And at week's end he motored to Chestertown, Md. to receive another honorary LL.D. (his eighth) and to address the graduates of tiny, ancient Washington College...
...greet Capitan Colon Eloy Alfaro, Ecuador's Minister to the U. S., and all Pan-American women, Senora Hermelinda U. Briones, Ecuadorean good-will flyer, took off from New York one day last week en route to Washington. Over Chestertown, Md. she got lost, landed in a cornfield, greeted a farmer, hired him to guide her across Chesapeake Bay. At Baltimore Farmer Richard S. Bruckner got out, collected his fee as guide, returned home by bus and ferry. In Washington next day, 24 hours overdue, arrived Greeter Briones in the name of the Union de las Mujeres Americanos...
...Chestertown, Md., when the ambulance could not be made to run, a hearse was sent to bring Negro Wilbur Stewart back from an Easton hospital. Hearing that a hearse had gone for him, the sick man's family arranged a funeral. The hearse drove up and out stepped Stewart, clad in a white hospital gown. Negroes dived out a second-story window, through a screen door. By dusk only a handful of the mourners had ventured back...
...extemporaneous speech at Chestertown, Md., where Washington College gave him an LL. D., President Roosevelt seemed to have the Lippmann criticism in mind. He said: "Some countries which have Dictatorships have laid down five-year plans and ten-year plans. However, I believe that in this country, which has not got a Dictator, we can move further in a shorter period without naming a definite length of time. . . . We have attained much within the past few months, but we cannot accomplish all in a few months...
...known to the staff as "Goitre") where he raises Irish terriers. At the (now defunct) Engineers' Club he played golf in the 80's. He keeps up his membership in London's Middlesex Golf Club. Last week he retired to his summer home at Chestertown, N. Y. in the Adirondacks. He wears tweedy clothes, habitually mumbles his speech around the stem of a well-caked briar pipe. At Blake's, the Herald Tribune saloon where he lunches with staff mates, he prefers Scotch whiskey. Late at night he is sometimes known to burst into song-always...