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What did Frederick the Great, Sam uel Johnson, Ben Franklin and Grover Cleveland have in common? Answer...
...Died. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 72, younger of World War I's draft-dodging brothers; of pneumonia; in Richmond, Va. The playboy sons of a wealthy German-American brewer in Philadelphia, Grover and his brother Erwin skipped town to avoid a draft call in 1918, declaring that they would not "fight against our kind." Erwin eventually surrendered, but Grover led the cops on a chase around the U.S. for a year and a half before he was found hiding inside a window seat in his mother's mansion. Sentenced to five years, he soon escaped, and this time fled...
...recent study, done for the U.S. Army by Dr. Robert Grover and Dr. John Reeves, shuttled high school students between Leadville, Colo., and Lexington, Ky., and showed that the boys' lungs exchanged only about 75% as much oxygen in the "Cloud City" (10,190 ft.) as in Lexington (955 ft.). A three-week period of acclimation helped little...
...until the illnesses of Dwight Eisenhower was the world treated to the intimate, suture-by-suture reporting of presidential ailments that characterized the official treatment of Lyndon Johnson's operation last week. When Grover Cleveland had an operation for cancer of the jaw in 1893, he slipped away for surgery aboard a boat off Long Island. During the five months when Woodrow Wilson lay paralyzed by a stroke in 1919, the nation was scarcely aware that he was sick. Franklin Roosevelt had been ailing for months before his cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., in 1945, but the public...
Always an open-minded, liberal Republican paper, the Star boosted Alf Landon into national political prominence and gave him a try at the Presidency. Last year the Star supported a Democratic candidate for President for the first time since Grover Cleveland-not so much because it liked L.B.J. as because it disliked Goldwater even more. Since then, the Star has supported much of the Johnson program, from the war in Viet Nam to the poverty bills to civil rights legislation. As for the farm bill, the Star found something to cheer about in the fact that while...