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Braucher and Freund suggested that President Eisenhower appoint Hand or Hastie to the vacancy on the bench which will be created by the retirement of Sherman Minto next month. The two professors felt sure Hand could get the retired Congressional approval at the next session, which will start in January...
...like a monkey and hung by her knees from the branches. She rode horseback and played golf. Skating was her own idea. From her father, who despite his invalid body worked 18 to 20 hours a day in the Department of National Defense, she learned tenacity. In the barnlike Minto Club, not far from her house, she practiced her first figures;-learning to do eights, brackets and counters ; to skate on the inside or outside edge of the runners (never on the flat of the blade); to avoid the "wobbles" which leave wavering traces...
...always got up and went carefully on. She never went home until she finished the required number of hours of practice, and when she did, it was often with chafed knees and dried tearstains on her cheeks. At eight, as the Spirit of the New Year in the Minto Follies, the Ottawa Journal called her "the darling of the show." At ten she became the youngest Canadian girl ever to win the gold medal,* and met Sonja Henie, who took Barbara out to tea and gave her an autographed picture of herself in a gold frame...
...Great Snob Curzon had no pity on poor horsy Minto. The Countess, again quoting her late husband's diary, records an inimitable Curzon snub to the new Viceroy as he reached India...
...were ready, assembled on the deck," wrote Lord Minto, "but no one appeared to represent the Bombay Government. We had expected an official reception. Our surprise was great when the pilot arrived with a message that the official landing had been canceled...