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...Wadsworth Longfellow and Teddy Roosevelt. Francis Scott Key played The Star-Spangled Banner on a Knabe; Lyndon Johnson has a Knabe, and Bobby Kennedy a Chickering. Other Aeolian pianos, built at seven plants in the U.S. and Canada, include Mason & Hamlin, Fischer, Pianola, Weber, George Steck, Duo-Art, Cable, Hardman Peck, Winter, Kranich & Bach, Ivers & Pond and Mason & Risch...
...Hardman, Peck Co., which makes most of today's new player pianos, no longer turns out electrically driven concert grands or giant uprights (people refuse to give them house space though their tone is beyond compare). They feature player spinets with foot pedals only, feel that pumping out the music is a genuine part of the nostalgia that is their stock in trade. Says one foot-pumping purist: "It gives you a sort of feeling of satisfaction .. . like natural childbirth...
...Pianola," once a trademark of the Aeolian Co.. long ago became a generic term for all player pianos, has been revived again recently by Hardman, Peck...
...wealthy in her own right from Pennsylvania Railroad holdings, Tod Clark married Nelson Rockefeller six days after his 1930 graduation from Dartmouth College. She was hardly the sort to feel at home in the political milieu. But when Rocky boomed into elective politics in 1958, swamping Democrat Averell Hardman for Governor, Tod tried to make the best of it. "I certainly think it's a challenge and enjoyable," she said, not quite convincingly, of political life. "I think you have an opportunity to get close to the real life of the community...
...Nixon, a politician not given to unconsidered words, came close to naming one: Millionaire-Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49. Said Nixon, speaking in Manhattan at a luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club: "I think Nelson Rockefeller would make a far better governor of New York than Averell Hardman.'' As the crowd applauded, Rockefeller, two seats away, grinned broadly. Nelson Rockefeller, second of the five sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr., has spent about ten years in Government-most of them in little-publicized hard work. He was Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs...