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Died. Dr. John Frederic Erdmann, 90, retired Manhattan surgeon, who performed more than 20,000 operations, including chest surgery on Tenor Enrico Caruso, a secret operation (to avoid public panic during the great 1893 free-silver debate) on President Grover Cleveland for cancer of the jawbone aboard a yacht in Long Island Sound; of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan...
...fell under the influence of Princeton President Woodrow Wilson. He landed a job as the A.P.'s campus correspondent, later exposed the practice by which student-correspondents paid their predecessors $50 bribes to get recommended to the wire services. He struck up an acquaintance with former President Grover Cleveland and his wife, who lived near by, once thoughtfully told Mrs. Cleveland that he would always be glad to handle whatever news she had. Not long after, on June 24, 1908, a messenger came to him with a note from Mrs. Cleveland: "Grover Cleveland died at 8:40 a.m. today...
...WENDELL GROVER, SALT LAKE COUNTY
...records his frequent dealings with the perch and catfish of the Potomac River. Thomas Jefferson, accompanied by his Secretary of State and successor, James Madison, traveled 300 miles by coach to fish for trout in ... Lake George. Chester Arthur knew his way to the salmon pools of New Brunswick. Grover Cleveland, an authority on black bass, wrote one of the most delightful of angling books [Fishing and Hunting Sketches], and perfectly phrased the ultimate test of a true sportsman, "He draweth not his flask in secret...
...course we're in a recession," agrees Economist A. W. Zelomek, president of the International Statistical Bureau. But Zelomek's idea of recession may startle many businessmen. "At the bottom," says he, "we'll be way above the prosperity levels of pre-Korea." Staff Chief Grover Ensley of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report has still another view of what is happening. Says he: "We are getting into an adjustment which, if not of the recessionary type, is of the downward type...