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...company's name comes from its parent roine in Butte, Mont., christened thus by its discoverer, who, while searching for something novel and mellifluous, read a Horace Greeley editorial in the New York Tribune enthusiastically describing the Union Army in the Civil War as encircling the Southern forces "like a giant anaconda...
...Crimson and the U.S. Olympic team could result in a meeting of the Cleary brothers, sophomore Bob and last year's All-American center forward Bill. Besides Bill Cleary, other former varsity players presently trying players out for the Olympic team include defenseman Doug Manchester and 1953 Captain Walt Greeley...
Spare the Rod. Historian Davis has unearthed some strange phrenological lore. There was, for instance, the man who picked horses by studying the shape of their skulls. Horace Greeley suggested that in the interests of safe train travel, brakemen should have the right-shaped head. There was even phrenological housing: Orson Fowler had built a mansion in the shape of an octagon, which started quite a fashion for octagonal houses...
...first member of Adolf Hitler's Cabinet to visit Britain since Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland in 1941, pink-cheeked Financial Wizard Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, 78, now a rapidly rising Düsseldorf banker, moseyed into London. In and out of courts and jails for five postwar years, Dr. Schacht now played the role of a cagey grandpa, beaming craftily, bustling to see old acquaintances, dropping plugs for his recently published memoirs, My First Seventy-Six Years. Interviewed by indifferent or downright hostile London newsmen, Banker Schacht had glib answers for questions. His estimate of West Germany...
...plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks. Ever since Gussie Busch has been a Democrat ("I'll be damned if I'll bite the hand that fed me"), thus giving some latter-day verisimilitude to Horace Greeley's remark, circa 1860: "I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers were Democrats...