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Sirs: I quote from TIME, March 28, p. 11: "Most U. S. Presidents who have bred sons have bred smart ones-witness President Adams the Elder, Harrison the Elder, Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft." First, don't you know that President Harrison the Elder bred not a "smart son," but a son who bred a "smart son," President Harrison the younger ? Second, are you sneering at John Coolidge by omitting his name from the "smart sons?" He is "the first boy in the land" (or the "first youth." If you prefer) : and deserves no belittling by you. He is such...
...John Quincy Adams who was the sixth U. S. President, John Scott Harrison who begot a President of the United States; the late Robert Todd Lincoln who was U. S. Secretary of War and President, Pullman Co.; Richard Folsom Cleveland, exponent of high principles in the practice of law; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who was Secretary of the Navy, which office his father held before him; Robert A. and Charles P. Taft, able lawyer-politicians of Ohio...
Others of the clay frontierswomen are as frail as Lillian Gish (F. Lynn Jenkins'), as strong as Abe Lincoln (James Fraser's), cute as Ann Pennington (Mario Korbel's), homely as Will Rogers (Mahonri Young's), expressionless as the Venus de Milo (Arthur...
...Last week I published some paragraphs in the London Evening Standard. 'I am willing,' I wrote, 'to concede arguments to the effect that Einstein is endowed with a more prodigious intellect than any in the history of the race, that Shakespeare stands alone and that Abraham Lincoln stands alone, but I implacably affirm that a greater novel than The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievsky has yet to be written.' I then rounded out the dozen greatest-in-my-opinion novels of all time. They included, in order, three more by Dostoievsky, three by Tolstoy, four by Turgeniev...
When Lord "Pam"&#* was born into fashion and fortune, England was still unconvinced that the U. S. existed. He was barely out of school when, as Secretary of State for War, he fought Napoleon (1809). Several months after Abraham Lincoln died, he died- Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston,† Prime Minister, the most popular nobleman who ever ruled England, the only Prime Minister who ever swept the polls without better reason than that he was himself...