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Death's final cadence this week closed the long career of a frail, wispy-haired Pole, the greatest pianist of his time, and one of the three greatest who ever lived. Patriot, man of affairs, bon vivant, philanthropist, Ignace Jan Paderewski had not played publicly since Poland fell. '"I simply could not stand it," he said...
...oldest member of the Class of 1941, which got its diplomas from George Washington University last week, is 78. Mrs. Isabelle Barnes Haggett, a small, frail, bright-eyed widow, settled down in the District of Columbia eight years ago, looked around for "something to do," decided to go to college. She found it "a little hard at first to keep up" with her young classmates, and an ill-fitting dental plate interfered with her French pronunciation, but she faithfully went to classes in good weather & bad, earned C grades...
...have dreamed of a Pan-American highway, happiest dreamer last week was probably Richard Albert Tewkesbury, 34, skinny, frail, 112-lb., 5 ft. 3 in. algebra instructor at Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. "Tooks," as he is known to the students who tower over him, is mild, puny, deep-voiced and bashful; he has peanut-sized biceps, and looks wan. Any critical Southern mammy would describe him as "peaked." He is also lionhearted, stubborn, iron-nerved, grimly determined, and a hero...
...affair between Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton is one of the more prosaic of history. He was a frail, prematurely old man who never mastered violent attacks of seasickness; while she was a rather large female who literally towered over her sea-going lover and took consolation in the bottle during his many absences...
...wrote this about 1890, lived long enough to see spurts of flame, among hollow murmurs, crumble Cambridge and all of Britain. A few hours after Sir James's death, by some curious magic, died frail, humorous, French-born Lady Frazer...