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...another syllable of the word "impeccable." What else he did there, no one can now recall. At Harvard he made no teams, was a member of no club. He is remembered principally as a fastidious dresser who wore stiff collars and a stickpin in his tie. He roomed with Horatio Nelson Slater, wealthy Bostonian, and in 1914 married Slater's sister Esther, a brunette beauty...
...Captain from Connecticut, which recently appeared in abbreviated form in the Saturday Evening Post, contains a larger percentage of trash than Forester's Captain Horatio Hornblower and To the Indies, which contained almost none. But it is the best tall-drink reading of the season...
...affair between Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton is one of the more prosaic of history. He was a frail, prematurely old man who never mastered violent attacks of seasickness; while she was a rather large female who literally towered over her sea-going lover and took consolation in the bottle during his many absences...
Died. Colonel Horatio Seymour Rubens, 71, last surviving member of the original Junta which fought to free Cuba from Spain; after a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Casual, talented and loaded with Irish luck, the Crosby career is also notable for making a bum out of Horatio Alger. For in 37 years, Bing Crosby has shed a confusing new light on the problem of how to be a success. He has never studied music or voice or pounded the pavements looking for work; yet jobs kept turning up-each a little better than the last. He always falls uphill. Year after year he just sings, and people pay fortunes to hear him. Over the radio, Bing's voice is worth $7,500 for one hour...