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Although dubbed a "dresser" by many reviewers, Streit has anything but sleep appearance. Tall, sandy-haired with penetrating blue eyes, he has a missionary's seal and a press agent's mastery of organization. From a cavernous briefcase he distributes reprints of the first chapter of his volume and copies 0 of the "Union Now Bulletin," a monthly publication...
...still sports the oversized, low, soft collars and droopy ties that he wore in the time of Queen Victoria. Watery-eyed and frail, but still erect as a ramrod, he now walks with the aid of a stick. Still a natty and very individual dresser, he prefers striped trousers and a white vest for daytime wear. Though his manner in conversation is kindly, dignified and somewhat remote (he speaks English without trace of an accent), his eyes can still flash like an aging lion's when Poland is mentioned...
Photographer George William Harris, founder of Harris & Ewing, veteran Washington, D. C. photographers, reminisced that Alice Roosevelt Longworth is the most photographed woman in his collection, Calvin Coolidge the most photographed President and "the best dresser that ever came to Washington...
...Dresser entered college as a member of the class of 1939. On probation last fall, he was a candidate for a degree next June. It was felt possible that he left college because of discouragement over his academic work...
...learned yesterday that Dresser's resignation had been accepted and that he had been allowed to withdraw. His single room, Dunster J-44, has since been allotted to another member of the University...