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...students learned something besides a language. Said Coed Tillie Jensen: "What [the French] want is to be Canadians. [We] were surprised to see how much alike we are." Said Helen Gilmour: "From what we had read and heard we believed the French-Canadians were ignorant, backward, distrustful, obstinately teaching their big families to nurse a resentful feeling that they were treated by the English as a conquered people. We found they are neither ignorant nor backward, but they cling to their traditions as we revere our own. ... I felt among friends. . . . We found we are all human beings, with much...
Alexander Woollcott, who enjoyed a six-digit income in his best years and gave much of it away, left an estate of some $70,000. His longtime secretary, Joseph Hennessey, said that the writer left practically all of it to two men: Hennessey himself and Captain Frode Jensen, a 35-year-old member of the Army Medical Corps in the Mediterranean. Danish-born...
...Jensen had come to the U.S. as a cabin boy, and Woollcott had helped him through medical school, ultimately made him his attending physician. Other Woollcott bequests: to Hamilton College (his alma mater), his library; to Harvard, a silver ruler Franklin D. Roosevelt gave...
...additional equipment, Chris Jensen ransacked machine shops and railroad yards, came up with many a prize. Example: a White truck on railroad wheels, now used as a Port Cargill switch engine. To get water for launching, a pool 20 ft. deep was dredged at Port Cargill, and a 9-ft. channel was dredged all the way to the Mississippi...
...blueprint expert, Chris Jensen leaves fine details to his staff of engineers and Navy officers, runs the yard and its more than 2,000 workers on a "let's try it this way" basis, hits his best form in emergencies. When the flooded Minnesota threatened to sweep away the big administration building in June, Chris Jensen had 120 jacks thrust underneath, raised the building three feet in twelve hours to let the muddy waters sweep underneath. The office staff kept on working...