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Mystery-loving folk throughout the world have woven legends around the afterlife of historic personages supposed to have survived their official deaths. A reputed mummy of John Wilkes Booth was long exhibited, with the tale that Lincoln's assassin escaped from the burning barn near Fredericksburg, Va., became a conscience-stricken wanderer, killed himself in Enid, Okla. in 1903 (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931). Some other legendary survivors: Louis Charles, Dauphin of France; Earl Kitchener; Tsar Nicholas II; Belgian Banker Alfred Lowenstein. As the years passed there grew up in the North Carolina countryside a firm belief that Peter Stuart...
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...publicize the planting of an avenue of cherry trees leading to the birthplace of George Washington near Fredericksburg, Va., oldtime Pitcher Walter ("Big Train") Johnson undertook to throw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, thus duplicating the legendary feat of the youthful Washington. Promptly New York's noisy Representative Sol Bloom, Director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, offered to bet 20-to-1 that Johnson could not fulfill the legend. When Fredericksburg citizens raised $5,000 to make the bet, Representative Bloom cabled to the British Public Record Office which cabled back that contemporary maps showed...
...George Campbell Peery refused to wet his feet, missed the show. Presently Pitcher Johnson wound up, plunked one dollar into the river, placed two more well up on the opposite bank. Official distance: 286 ft. 6 in. Representative Bloom, "too busy" to attend, refused to pay the citizens of Fredericksburg $100,000, pointed out that the legend was impossible anyway since the dollar did not exist in Washington's youth...
...left Harvard to join the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers. He was wounded at Ball's Bluff. Antietam and Fredericksburg. He was mustered out in 1864 a captain. Returning to Harvard, he took a law degree, lectured on constitutional law and jurisprudence, edited The American Law Review, practiced briefly in Boston. For 20 years he sat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court. In 1902 President Roosevelt appointed him to the U. S. Supreme Court. There he quickly grew famed for his liberal thought, for the clarity and grace of his expression, for the vigor and regularity with which he dissented from...