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...journey to Australia was completed. Refueling was undertaken, and again the fleet took to the high seas. The voyage from Hawaii to Samoa was broken by frequent maneuvers. The only incident of note took place when an officer, Lieutenant Harry J. Noble of the Medical Corps, aboard the destroyer Ludlow became ill. He diagnosed his case as appendicitis. The Ludlow turned on its course and ran back 30 miles to the hospital ship Relief (which had fallen out of formation because of machinery trouble). The water was too rough to launch one of the destroyer's boats...
...last time he had been in Washington was on Mar. 4 when "J. G. Sargent, Ludlow, Vt." registered at the Willard. He had come down on the train with Colonel John Coolidge and his party; and the story is that he had treated the whole party to railroad and Pullman tickets. Although he dined at the White House as the guest of the President, he is said to have preferred to have his meals in the basement of the White House with the Secret Service men with whom he had made friends the summer before at Plymouth. He kept...
...Sargent's schooling was delayed and he was still in the Black River Academy at Ludlow when Calvin Coolidge, twelve years his junior, came over from the hill-farm at Plymouth, twelve miles away. They say that the husky senior took care of the little fellow at hazing time...
Afterward, he went to Tufts College, played centre on the football eleven and was called "Jumbo"?a name which Mr. P. T. Barnum had just popularized. Next, he went back to Ludlow, married and read law in a law-office. Three years later, he was admitted to the bar, became a successful attorney. From 1908 to 1912, he was State Attorney General. He won a murder case where the plea of insanity was made, but wept when the man was sent to the gallows. At one time or another, he represented the New York, New Haven & Hartford and Boston...
...fashioned brick house with 15 rooms, has a big library and (so it is said) 100 pipes?briars, corncobs, clays, calabashes. He likes Oriental rugs, is somewhat of a naturalist (collects birds' nests), owns a maple grove. He bought a tumbled-down place about 15 miles from Ludlow and uses it as a fishing club?he loves fishing. His automobile is good but old?old and paintless. There are nine clocks in the room where he works, for one of his hobbies is repairing clocks. Mr. Sargent is, in Republican state politics, quite a power. He opposed the 16th Amendment...