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Last winter Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, who now makes her home with friends in Northampton, Mass., offered for sale "The Beeches," where she and the 30th President lived after they left the White House. Some of the household furnishings she put in storage. Last week she was traveling in Europe when the residue odds & ends were put up at auction in a Northampton gymnasium. Auctioneer George Howard Bean had sent engraved circulars to about 1,500 clients, announcing that each of the 400 items of Coolidgeana offered would be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Only 400 bidders showed...
...satisfied buyer was a hotel man who purchased enough for a complete "Coolidge Room." As the five-hour proceedings dragged on, various local Coolidge friends stood about scowling blackly. Snorted Judge Henry P. Field, in whose office Calvin Coolidge got his first job: "It's a disgrace to Northampton!" Equally uncomfortable as the parade of shabby possessions trickled past, Lawyer Ralph W. Hemenway, Calvin Coolidge's onetime partner, explained they were "just a bunch of junk...
...Northampton, Mass...
Died. James Lucey, 81, cobbler-philosopher who swung the Irish vote of Northampton, Mass, to Calvin Coohdge in the mayoralty race of 1910, thus helped win Cooliydge his first important political office; in Northampton, Mass. "guide philosopher & friend" to the 30th President, he received the first letter Coolidge wrote from the White House. His classic advice: "Don't say nothin...
...England Meet will be held at Northampton on May 9. Colleges which will take part include Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Amherst, Norwich, and Middlebury. With six newly licensed private pilots, the Crimson fliers have high hopes of winning the meet. The Club has flown over 350 hours already this year...