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Inevitably known as "Copey" despite feeble protests from time to time, he retired from active English teaching here in 1928, but to more than memories, Still an active and keen mind more concerned with the future than the past, the retired man of letters vigorously retains his "independent" status in politics...
...connoisseur of French foods and the delicate Continental wines of which there are "only imitations in this country but for one I have discovered in the Finger Lakes of New York State." Those who meet him and withdraw at an apparent forbidding austerity soon learn that Gropius possesses a keen sense of humor (hampered somewhat by an incomplete appreciation of American slang) and the greatest warmth for people who are young-in years or in ideas. At Robinson Hall his carefully screened graduate students from the four corners of the earth hold him in something close to worship. One Czech...
Eleven feet in those days was the world's record, and in the 1905 Harvard-Yale meet, "we had to put boxes under the standards to allow Grant and Gilbert to tie for first place at 11 feet, 6 inches." A keen judge of vaulting ability, who claims that "without good form the pole vaulter can do nothing," Mike expects Pete Harwood to break the current college record of 13 feet, 11 3/4 inches this spring...
...Club interview the President. "Little girl," said he, "go out and buy yourself an ice-cream cone." But Val talked her boss into it, and Truman agreed. Her conference was the only one the President gave in Chicago. Said Val: "It was precedent-breaking. It made history. It was keen...
...would vote for. Of all the news characters in all the world (which are the terms she thinks in), whom would she most like to interview? "Stalin, or maybe Molotov. Of course," she added, "I'd rather meet [Movie Actor] Peter Lawford than anyone else. He's keen...