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When she is commissioned, in about two months, the Williamsburg will be the sixth in her line. In the Republic's first struggling century, U.S. Presidents went yachtless. But in 1893, as the head of a rising naval power, Grover Cleveland took to cruising aboard the gunboat Dolphin. McKinley sailed in the Sylph, and by the time Roosevelt I took over the hefty (2,690-ton) Mayflower, a yacht was considered standard office equipment for a President...
...Omar N. Bradley to head the Veterans Administration (see above); 38-year-old Navy Lieut. Paul M. Herzog, former chairman of the New York Labor Relations Board, to succeed ailing Harry A. Millis as NLRBoss; quiet, businesslike John B. ("Jack") Hutson, onetime head of Commodity Credit Corp., to replace Grover B. Hill as Under Secretary of Agriculture. ¶ Said he would not hesitate to ration civilian travel if the huge redeployment job makes it necessary...
...Born. To Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 51, World War I draft dodger, now at liberty after serving almost five years of a seven and a half year sentence in Army prisons, and Berta Frank Bergdoll, 37, applicant for U.S. citizenship: their seventh child, a son; one week after the death of Bergdol's 83-year-old mother, Emma Bergdoll; in West Chester...
...Straight Row. On that November day in 1884 when Grover Cleveland reversed 2-4 years of Republican rule to win the Presidency for the Democrats, John Truman, owner of a mule barn in Lamar, Mo., raised a flag over his white frame house and vowed it would stay there as long as Democracy remained in power. Six months earlier, John Truman had tacked a mule shoe above his front door to celebrate the birth of his first son, Harry...
...Quitting the University of California as a freshman, he built a 100-lb. model, lugged it to the Army's aviation laboratories at Wright Field. "They said I'd better just go back home and forget the whole thing." Thereupon he hied himself to Washington, tracked down Grover Loening, wangled priorities to build a full-scale model...