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...noticed the president playing touch football with his sons in the Yard behind his house on Quincy Street. According to a CRIMSON of the fall of 1933, the football-playing president "appeared to be enjoying himself hugely." The president's athletic pretensions have not always lain along such hap-hazard lines in the summer of 1937 he went with a group to climb in the Sierra Nevadas "real rope stuff" Conant refers to it. The next two summers he climbed in the Canadian Rockies and then was elected to the American Alpine Club. A wrenched back and the Second World...
...Biggest hazard was Lodge's feud with his former ally, National Committeeman William H. Brennan. Their dispute was over local issues, but Ike's friends feared Brennan might join the Taft minority, split the delegation. Lodge succeeded in displacing Brennan as national committeeman with former Governor James C. Shannon. Lodge then withdrew his opposition to William A. Purtell, a Hartford businessman, who was nominated for U.S. Senator. In an atmosphere of uneasy harmony, brought .about by these moves, the Ike slate of delegates was elected...
...wish to put your mind at rest on the matter of my "rocking chair and divan" (letter of 21 May). I must express my surprise when your caretaking people considered them "a hazard to maids." You see they came into my possession this fall in virtually their present condition and have been around the University eight or ten years. I can testify that they have seen almost daily service this year for "rocking and diving," and neither a fatality or other hazard-caused casualty has resulted. This you see, is my principal amazement: if my friends and I have survived...
...condition of your rocking chair and divan has been brought to my attention by our Caretaking people. These two items of furniture, in our opinion, constitute a hazard for maids...
...however your administrative duties do not permit such festivities. I shall prevent any untoward disaster from the furniture I have posted the articles so offensive to the Caretaking people with this notice. Maids a hazard, approach with caution. Further in view of the objecting of the Caretaking people to the low bottoms of the articles. I have posted them as follows. "MAIDS, do not crawl under, low clearance." Other matters prevent me from buying, selling or conveying furniture at this time. I shall he free in two weeks to examine the market for used furniture so that I shall...