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Several agreed with one gentleman who felt only that the Harvard man is just the 'average numb rider." Some had formed no opinion. "I just ride back and forth and don't pay much attention," stated James Galt of 74 Hardenway Street Roxbury...
University scholarships to Bruno Beer, of Rome, Italy; Norman J. S. DeWind, of Aurora, Illinois; Wendell W. Galt, of Greenfield; Richard W. Snibbe, of Cambridge; Edward Wenk, Jr., of Baltimore; and David B. Aldrich, of Madison, New Jersey...
...past 18 years, drawing a $5,000 yearly pension from the Government and occasionally entertaining a few friends at bridge, has been a buxom dowager of 66 who once set the U. S. on its ear. That was in the fall of 1915 when as Edith Boiling Galt, handsome, middle-aged widow of a Washington jeweler, she consented to marry 58-year-old Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the U. S. This week Mrs. Edith Boiling galt Wilson once more made news when she published a big, chatty, contentious 360-page autobiography, My Memoir...
...courtship of the third President of the U. S. to woo and win in the White House.* began when he met Mrs. Galt, who was brought to the White House one day by the President's Cousin Helen Bones. They had a laugh together over her muddy shoes, his disheveled golf suit. Later she joined the family circle when Woodrow Wilson read aloud, went for automobile rides with him and Miss Bones. Barely two months later when the President proposed marriage, she was so surprised that she blurted: "Oh, you can't love...
...Lincoln's $3,000* a year was the first pension for a Presidential widow. Since then pensions have been granted to nine other Presidential widows-Julia Gardiner Tyler, Sarah Childress Polk, Julia Dent Grant, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Ida Saxton McKinley, Edith Carow Roosevelt, Helen Herron Taft, Edith Boiling, Galt Wilson, Grace Goodhue Coolidge. Last week this polite beneficence was impolitely questioned for the first time...