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This was the man who was the nation's twelfth Secretary of Commerce, a job which has, at one time or another, fallen to an oddly contrasting lot of personalities : Herbert Hoover, a high-collared symbol of Republican conservatism; Harry Hopkins, the frail, dedicated symbol of the Roosevelt revolution; Henry Wallace, a symbol of the idealist gone wild and then sour; Jesse Jones, the hard-nosed banker-baron, Texas Stetson style; Averell Harriman, a symbol of the silver spoon and the itch to do good. If Charles Sawyer was the symbol of anything, he was a symbol...
Pitchfork & Pipe. The sounds carried to the nearby elephant barns. A frail, 58-year-old trainer named Rudy Muller heard them, came running to the arena with a pitchfork and an eight-foot length of iron pipe. He went inside, carefully locked the door, and advanced on Sultan. He stabbed the lion in the side with the pitchfork. The big cat winced and spun. Without a second's pause Muller smashed him between the ears with the pipe. The lion staggered, sat back on his hind legs...
Night after night, big, hardy Bill Aberhart and the frail farm youth studied together, first the Scriptures, then more worldly books. When the depression was at its height they read Maurice Colbourne's Unemployment or War, expounding the theory of Social Credit for the redistribution of wealth, as originated by England's Major Clifford Douglas. Aberhart and Manning decided it was the answer to Alberta's problems...
...most noteworthy of the ancients braving the elements during the approaching months is a determined, if frail-looking black two-door Ford sedan of 1921 vintage, which belongs to John D. Little '51, of Eliot House. According to Little, this automobile is very similar to the first sedan ever made by Henry Ford...
...last acts of frail, white-haired Composer Bela Bartok before his death in 1945 was to complete a viola concerto for William Primrose. In the University of Minnesota's Northrop Memorial Auditorium last week, a near-capacity crowd brought Violist Primrose back onstage six times with thunderous applause. With Conductor Antal Dorati's Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, he had given the first public performance of Bartok's tragic, lyrical swan song...