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...upkeep of the Memorial Room is paid by the Widener family and only family members are allowed to add books--a privilege rarely used. The most valuable book in the collection, however, was donated after Widener's death, by a family member. His grandfather bought a Guttenberg Bible when Harry was in London. The grandfather wanted to surprise him, but Harry never returned. After a stay in the Widener family, the book was donated to the collection...
Visitors to the Room are not awed by the Guttenberg or any other of the books which caused the University to insure it for $4,000,000. "What they all want to know," says Mrs. Ford, the Curator, "is whether Harry read every single one of those books...
Double Take. In Guttenberg, Iowa, Fisherman Eldon Saeuging disappointedly found an old 4O-qt. cream can on the end of his line, happily discovered inside it a 34-lb. catfish...
Todhunter was not his name. The Kokomo, Ind. barber who was his father used to call him "Toad." By the time he was a stable boy at Guttenberg, N. J. James Sloan's hard little fists had changed the offensive nickname to "Tod." When in 1900 he returned from England to the U. S. with a secretary, a valet, ten trunks, a monocle and an English accent, open-mouthed newshawks asked what "Tod" meant. Replied he: "Todhunter...
...mark of 47 seconds by Long was in the nature of a paced race in which two runners, P. J. Walsh of New York Athletic Club, and W. S. Edwards of Knickerbocker Athletic Club, paced him for half of the distance on a specially prepared course on the old Guttenberg Race Track some 25 years ago. Long was a marvelous runner, and his record of 47 4-5 around a handicap field at Travers Island subsequently proved, to my way, of thinking, that he was the second best quarter miler on record, in as much as Meredith...