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There may be a painting of a schooner over Donald Douglas' mantel, but Endymion today is a cutter. Thousands of Los Angeles yachtsmen, familiar with Endymion's magnificent single stick, remember that she was converted to a more modern rig a number of years...
...Harry Truman, bottle duster, bank clerk and would-be haberdasher, was bogged deep in failure. All he had to show for his career was an old army uniform and a loving cup too ostentatious to keep on the mantel...
Franklin Roosevelt's oval second floor study had a festive air. Vases of white gladioli and chrysanthemums stood on the mantel. The big marble fireplace was banked with greens. Tall American Beauty roses stood in vases on his mahogany desk. As the hands of the old-fashioned French clock on the mantel neared noon, the President moved to a seat at the right of the fireplace. There he sat, while the 44 wedding guests arrived...
Nervous Harry Hopkins missed no lines, dropped no ring, scuffed no shoes. At 18 minutes after twelve, by the mantel clock, the ceremony was over. Franklin Roosevelt took "Louie" Macy Hopkins' hand, kissed her on the cheek...
...many of them had a service flag with a gold star hanging in a parlor window along one of their shade-dappled streets. To little, ink-smelling newspaper offices went a mother or a father, holding stiffly the telegram from Washington and the picture that had stood on the mantel...