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...Paris bureau's George Abell got an early start in French"from my Breton nurse, who was later murdered by our German coachman two years after he married her." Frank White arrived in the Paris office in 1948 equipped with a combination of college French, Foreign Legion French, and colonial French picked up in Indo-China after the war. "To Parisians," he says, "I sounded like a Saigonese houseboy." M. Dennis, his tutor, cured that. Two years later White was in Rio de Janeiro meeting another tutor at 9 o'clock every morning to master Portuguese...
Family & Early Years: Born at Oyster Bay, N.Y. near Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill estate, and reared in Republicanism. His father, Franklyn H. Hall, was Roosevelt's coachman and rose to be White House librarian. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt suggested to Hall's parents that they name their son for her husband's friend and old commanding officer, General Leonard Wood...
...other lectures Cummings promised to "name Charles Eliot Norton's coachman and define sleep. . . . If you ask me," he said, "why talk about triviality, I shall answer: "What are they...
...Alice Coachman, 25, the Georgia Negro who won the women's Olympic high jump, received an enthusiastic, if well segregated, reception on her return to her native state. She rode in a parade of automobiles from Atlanta to her home in Albany, and crowds cheered along the way. In her home town, prominent citizens gathered on the stage of the auditorium, whites on the right, Negroes on the left, to pay her honor. Mayor James W. ("Taxi") Smith eulogized her in a short speech...
...always the best rider on every horse. One very good one that he can't ride is Stymie, greatest of the money-earners (with $823,560). He once rode Stymie, whom he says he doesn't "fit," admitted that he must have looked like Ned the Coachman coming down the stretch...