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After appraising the new flock carefully. Ulen picked four as outstanding potential three of them west who are eligible for Varsity competition despite Freshman standing. Charlie Grover tore off some fast laps, and showed the polish in stroke and turn that characterized his N.A.A.U. competitions in Boston last year...
...then, Ed had been in state politics for more than 40 years. He had been born, properly, in a log cabin and, at twelve, helped round up votes for Greene County Democrats. This was a mistake he soon corrected. When Grover Cleveland and the Democrats took the high tariff off imported wools and ruined Ed's sheep-raising father, Ed reformed and joined the Republicans. In 1898 he marched off to fight the Spanish in the Philippines. He came back and graduated from Waynesburg College...
...turn of the century, it was an honor to pose for Sweden's Anders Zorn. Among the sitters for Etcher Zorn, a mountainous, walrus-mustached fellow, were: William Howard Taft, Grover Cleveland, Auguste Rodin, Paul Verlaine...
...Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War I's slick slacker, lashed himself into an offensive fury. The butler on his Downington (Pa.) estate told police all about it: when he demanded $150 in back pay, fat, 52-year-old Bergdoll gave him a quick sock in the head, then grabbed a shotgun. "I'll shoot you down like a dog," said Bergdoll. Wife Berta Bergdoll stepped in, ruled out a shooting war, let it go to law. The butler's charge: assault & battery and pointing of firearms...
...Grover O'Neill...