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Nothing was too good for William O'Dwyer as he abruptly bowed out last week as mayor of New York. Grover Whalen, the man with the carnation in his buttonhole who officiates at the city's ceremonial greetings, turned himself inside out and whipped up a ceremonial farewell. All that was missing was a turnout of a few million New Yorkers...
...actually went so far as to jostle a Pinkerton. After that, Mark devoted the rest of his life to visiting Walt Whitman, dressing French wounds in the Franco-Prussian War and preaching Wilsonian democracy on park benches to young men who weren't even ready for Grover Cleveland...
Turn of the Screw. In St. Louis, Mrs. Grace C. Hill, protesting a new reduction in her tenants' rents, mailed area Rent Director Grover C. Vandover the deed to her house and a note: "You are no doubt in better position to operate the property at a profit under your restrictions, so here it is with my blessings...
...most of my pals are gone, we're in another age." Also back in his hometown (Aspen, Colo.), shock-headed New Yorker Editor Harold Ross said that he hoped to clear up a mystery: "My mother always told me that [I was born] on the day Grover Cleveland was elected. But I've never been able to figure out why they'd have an election on a Sunday...
...young (31), black-bearded politician named Henry Jarvis Raymond, who later helped found the Republican Party, the Times flourished until Raymond died. Later it went deeply into debt, by 1896 was losing more than $2,000 a week. Armed with a letter of recommendation from President Grover Cleveland (which he had obtained simply by writing the President and requesting it), Ochs went to New York and bought control of the Times for $75,000. By cutting the price from 2? to a penny, he tripled circulation in a year...