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...heard a guy hollering," said Millard B. Rice '89. "I let out a little whoop, and here...
Author Seale rates the eminently forgettable Millard Fillmore as having had the best head for design and doing as much as any other President to improve the White House grounds and the beauty of Washington. The mounds on the South Lawn are not Jefferson's after all, says Seale, but the result of dumping excess dirt from excavation for the Treasury Department when Franklin Pierce was President...
President-elect Franklin Pierce took up residence at the Willard in 1853 and stayed there until the day he marched to the inaugural stand with Millard Fillmore. It was Fillmore who then came back to the hotel and moved into his successor's old quarters. Once, when the water supply in the neighborhood became tainted, Henry Willard sent a couple of barrels of drinking water from his splendid well over to James Buchanan in the White House, just a stroll away...
Music major Carol Millard '86 says she likes making electronic music because it offers more room for individual creation than other musical fields. "Jazz is too structured," she says. Tcherepnin echoes Millard's attitude. "Electronic music is one of the last remaining frontiers. Fifteen years of violin training in 20 years of life provides no advantage in this medium over pure curiosity...
...task of solving ComputerLand's woes now falls to Ed Faber, 52, who served as president from 1976 until he retired in 1983. The former Marine Corps captain was salmon fishing in Redding, Calif., on Sept. 27 when Barbara Millard called to ask him to become the new chief executive. Within a day Faber had accepted, and last Monday he was in Chicago for a meeting of some 170 of the most disgruntled ComputerLand franchisees...