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Over-enthusiastic supporters of the Big Green not only damaged Band instruments, but also fouled halyards on the Soldiers Field flagpole while attempting to hoist the Dartmouth flag. Carroll F. Getchell, Business Manager of the Harvard Athletic Association, described their action as "vandalism" and said that it was necessary to employ a steeplejack to restore the flagpole to working order...
...with his size and ambition. Ax on shoulder, he went into the woods, felled and milled timber, and built with his own hands a house at the foot of the mountain and a 7Oo-ft. ladder up its side. For two years, until he rigged a makeshift cable hoist and then built a road to the top, he lugged lumber and equipment up the mountain, piece by piece, on his back. He made a model and set out to carve out of the rock mountain the figure of Crazy Horse mounted on a plunging steed. To the derisive question...
...dark-blue foul-weather jacket with "The President" stenciled in gold on the chest. Ike took up his station for hours at a time on the green-tinted, glass-windowed flag bridge of Saratoga.* With him was an all-star Government audience for whom the Navy could hoist its message. From Washington had come Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (who talks up but has seldom witnessed the military muscles of the U.S. in action), retiring Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, Atomic Storekeeper Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson and an articulate handful of Navy brass, from Chief...
...Page One "photographic editorials" showing potholed pavements and exposed water lines. In their eagerness to clear or smear the city administration, the papers even scrapped over details of a drunk-driving arrest; the Herald-Post declared that police had beaten the driver, one Isidro Fernandez, and used a chain hoist to haul him out of a ditch. Sneered Pooley, whose cop-baiting helped drive one El Paso police chief to a nervous breakdown: "Ah, such big, bold, efficient lawmen...
Boobs & Crooks. In the end, Author Schlesinger damages his own case, for even Roosevelt admirers are bound to be distressed by the way in which Schlesinger weights his scales with selected evidence to drag down businessmen and to hoist F.D.R. No one can reasonably deny the errors and terrors of the era. But in Schlesinger's version, financiers and members of the Hoover Administration almost without exception are boobs or crooks or both; their reluctance to recognize the Depression for what it was, and to force more stringent Government action, is attributed to nothing more than blindness or greed...