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Catledge joined the staff in 1929, a young Southerner whose professional qualifications had preceded him to New York by two years. His entrée was accomplished by none other than Herbert Hoover, who had gone South to inspect damage done by the great Mississippi flood of 1927. Impressed by Catledge's flood stories in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Hoover mentioned them to his friend Adolph Ochs, then Times publisher. Ochs acted, and Catledge was on his way to Manhattan...
...Sharp; his cousin Rear Admiral Louis A. Sharp Jr.; Rear Admiral George C. Towner and Admiral John Hoover. Except for Oley, all are retired...
...suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, Herbert Hoover celebrates his 90th birthday this week with a family dinner. He is the first U.S. President to live so long since John Adams...
...artists, and eventually wealthy art patrons and businessmen. It has prospered nicely ever since, under its lazy-going motto, "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here." Today among its 1.950 members are, besides a collection of little-known but influential people, such diversified types as Henry Ford II, former President Hoover, Bing Crosby, Richard Nixon, Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Lucius Clay, retired General Albert Wedemeyer (Barry's host), former Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, and Old Aviator Jimmy Doolittle. There is al ways an eager waiting list of at least 850-and some people wait...
...beneath the trees. This year the Bohemians did a musical about murder in a whorehouse called Dammit. Who Done It? in which, presumably, the moral was that too many crooks spoil the brothel. Occasionally, particularly learned or prized guests make informal, off-the-record speeches in the glade. Herbert Hoover has spoken there, and so have Dwight Eisenhower and Nelson Rockefeller. Attorney General Robert Kennedy addressed the Grove alfresco a few weeks ago. It was Goldwater's turn last week...