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...Among gouty notables: Kubla Khan, Alexander the Great; U.S. President James Buchanan, British Prime Ministers Disraeli, Palmerston, Melbourne, Canning, the Pitts, Neville Chamberlain; John Milton, Martin Luther, Tennyson, Benjamin Franklin, John Barrymore...
...room Tudor-style house, "Fairholme," where a picture of Napoleon by David hangs in his room. From there, he usually goes to New York each Monday night, goes back each Thursday night. As befits a railroad baron, he always travels in his private car. His Cleveland office is a Kubla Khanish relic of the Van Sweringens. But his offices in Manhattan's Chrysler Building are small and unlisted on the building directory. He does not need a large office because "I carry the business in my head...
Englishmen admit that dirty weather won at least half the battle for England when Spain went down with the Armada in 1588. Dirty weather - under the guise of Kamikaze, the Divine Wind - saved Japan from defeat in 1274 when Kubla Khan's invasion boats were smashed to flotsam. Dirty weather postponed and al most disrupted World War II's Dday. In peace or war, weather is important, and these days of air travel reliable weather information is more important than ever before...
...George "Kubla" Kuhn, flashy right end, grabbed a shaky pass to the flat and raced forty yards to the Lowell 15 before a fleet Bellboy brought him to earth. Several plays later Tom Lacy plunged over for the touchdown from the one-yard stripe...
...modern Kubla Khan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1930 a cluster of skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white gloves, Mr. Rockefeller drove a silver rivet into the 14th and final building, to symbolize the completion of his $100,000,000 monument...