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...east bay of his grey stone mansion on Portland's Imperial Heights, to look once more across the city where he had made his fortune. As the late winter sunshine streamed through the window, Henry Lewis Pittock knew that his time was short, knew that his keenest regret was to leave to other hands the great daily he had founded 58 years before. Next night he died, and Portlanders learned that his $7,894,778.33 estate was the largest ever probated in Oregon...
...King of England, George VI, last week wrote a letter to one of his aunts telling her that His Majesty also takes the keenest interest in housing conditions among his subjects. Aunt Alice, Countess of Athlone, promptly released this to the British press which gave it about the same prominence as the Duke of Windsor's interest in housing conditions...
...memory of a genial counselor, just as generous in his efforts as sage in his advice, nor can Harvard in particular forget the thirty years Mr. Perkins spent as Fellow, during which period he rose from the youngest of the Corporation to be its revered senior member and keenest spirit...
...also stated that the Archbishop is "generally humorless." He would indeed be humourless if he had used the words attributed to him about being chief spokesman of God to his fellow countrymen. As a matter of fact, he has the keenest possible sense of humour (like most of his fellow Scotsmen) and is one of the most highly sought-after after dinner speakers in the whole of London...
...Seventeenth Century England has in many instances cast a new light on the understanding of the revolutionary and religious movements of that significant period. For his books on this subject, perhaps even more than for his lectures he will be remembered as a great scholar possessed with the keenest of intellects and yet with the crispness of wit which save his works from the abyss of factual documentary, but dull historical evidence...