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Somber in his black coat and stovepipe hat, a tall young man slouched in the saddle one fall afternoon in 1826 while his horse ambled into the little village of Oxford, Ohio. Even as he rode he read, and his saddlebags bulged with volumes of Livy and Horace, Ovid and Xenophon. William Holmes McGuffey, newly appointed professor of ancient languages at Oxford's Miami University, was exactly the type of sobersided teacher the fledgling university wanted. Last week, in a high-ceilinged room of Miami University's Alumni Library, 300 members of the McGuffey Society came to dedicate...
...Gabrielson approached Hoover, amid the clamor, to present him with a gold medal of appreciation, tears started in the old man's eyes. Finally the sound died down, the convention went on. Mr. Hoover walked slowly to the rear of the platform, his medal pinned on his coat, and eased himself down on a chair with the air of a man whose work is finally done...
Since her operation Eva Perón made public appearances only at the opening of Congress in May and at the June 4 presidential inauguration, where her mink coat hung like a shroud. In the meantime, her followers have whipped up countless new tributes. Last week labor leaders ordered every wage earner in the country to give a day's pay toward building monuments to her. Reportedly, their plan was to build $42 million worth of spires, each 210 ft. tall, topped with statues of Eva, to stand in each of the provincial and territorial capitals in Argentina...
...baby sister as he was in giving inoculations. He was something of a presence, especially to little girls. "When he patted the glands in your throat, you felt you'd been blessed," one ex-patient remembers with a sigh. He wore a business suit rather than a white coat which might seem strange to little children, and he made a game of their regular checkups-designing a special structure up which they willingly scrambled to be on and thumped. His enormous practice wasn't built on gadgets, however, but on a simpler secret: that it's just...
...battle for academic freedom waged by Theater Arts Professor Ronald Reagan. "Hot Garters Gertie," as the bump & grind artist is known, is saved from expulsion when Professor Reagan threatens to expose Board of Trustees Chairman Roland Winters as a wolf in sheepskin clothing who once gave Gertie a mink coat...