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Robert Winthrop Chanler was born auspiciously enough on Washington's Birthday, 1873. His family was and still is socially prominent in apple-raising Dutchess County (above & east of Poughkeepsie), New York?a family full of "characters" and legends, a wealthy family that can indulge its eccentricities. At the age of ten Bob drew an indubitable horse on a large piece of paper, took it into the parlor for his parents to admire. They refused to believe that he had done it, punished him for lying. Discouraged, he did not try to draw again, for another 25 years...
...Dutchess County, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in 1882, is very much "upstate," just south of Albany. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a fifth cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt and he married Theodore Roosevelt's niece, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. He is, conspicuously, the man that Theodore Roosevelt the younger never became. Tall, with a chiselled countenance, blue eyes, curling light hair, he has exercised a vigorous public spirit ever since, as editor of the Harvard Crimson, he demanded and demanded and obtained fire escapes for Harvard's dormitories. He went into the New York Senate in 1910 after practicing...
...with Beryl Mercer as a simple housekeeper who understands women better than the celebrated bachelor scientists, they offer as fine a performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season. Liza Doolittle, howling gutter-virgin, is transformed by Scientist Higgins into a perfect specimen of Dutchess Britannica-triumph for Mr. Higgins' theory of phonetics. As the outside of a beautiful Duchess, the love-starved waif finds herself in a cruel predicament. She is more woman than artist, would rather sustain a black eye than the impersonal, scientific objectivity to which she is subjected...
Queen Mary, confined to her room with a bad cold, was unable to dine at the Dutchess of Roxburghe...
...party in Grand Rapids, where it will observe the work of the great furniture companies. Detroit, and the Ford Motor Company will be the next objectives, after a study of which the embryo business men will visit the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester. After a stop-over at the Dutchess Bleachery of Wappingers Falls, the travellers will advance to the final city on their program, Bridgeport, which they will reach on July 19, and where in the two following days, they will inspect the establishment of the American Brass Company and the Winchester Arms Company...