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...born in Jefferson, Iowa (pop. 4,000) in November 1901. His father was looked on as something of an eccentric by the neighbors. He built an eight-sided house for his family, on the theory that it would be proof against wind storms, scribbled a new system of logic which Gallup still hopes to edit some day. He was an ardent Bryan man. As a joke, people started calling George "Ted," after Teddy Roosevelt, a nickname that has stuck ever since...
...Jefferson Watkins--Thayer Hall...
...broad strokes of the brush would paint the portraits of all the early Presidents with this exception, and a few more strokes would answer for any member of their cabinets; but Jefferson could be painted only touch by touch, with a fine pencil, and the perfection of the likeness depended upon the shifting and uncertain flicker of its semi-transparent shadows...
...JEFFERSON THE VIRGINIAN (484 pp.)-Dumas Malone-Little, Brown...
With the second part, at least, of this famous statement by Henry Adams, Columbia's Professor Dumas Malone agrees. In this first installment of a four-volume work on Jefferson and his time, Malone has drawn a careful portrait of the tall, sandy-haired young Virginian who drafted the Declaration of Independence and struggled with dignity through two harassing years as Virginia's war governor. Malone's touches are precise and measured rather than fine; neither lights nor shadows are handled warmly, and his picture remains academic. But he does supply a sound and scholarly account...