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Matheson. A bright sun was shining across Biscayne Bay in Florida one day last February as William John Matheson, retired chemical tycoon, sat on his Coconut Grove porch and watched one of his white high-sided launches return with indignant house guests from Key Biscayne six miles away. Close behind came a black speed launch in charge of Coast Guardsmen. A rough sea was running. Spray curtains had been in place. The guardsmen had fired five rifle shots at the Matheson boat to stop...
...young farmer, vanished last week. After three days searchers found him atop a straw stack. Dreading capture, he gulped down poison. Purged by a physician, he explained that he had been so pestered by a life insurance agent that suicide had seemed attractive. . . . The pestiferousness of such agents- porch-climbers, telephoners, buttonholers. classmates-may soon become a matter for the attention of Citizen Calvin Coolidge. Last week he accepted nomination to New York Life Insurance Co.'s board of directors and assignment to the agency committee where he will specialize in "human contacts." His formal election will occur...
...husband thus at peace, Madame La Maréchale, frugal, set off to market, taking along her cook to carry the market bag. Then for a time there was no one in the house but "Papa" Joffre, so fast asleep that he did not hear light steps on the porch, the creak of the front door which Madame La Maréchale had accidentally left unlocked, or stealthy footfalls which soon indicated that someone was prowling all over the house. Surely it could be no sneakthief. Who would steal from lovable, heroic "Papa" Joffre, who saved Paris at the Battle...
...writer. For a few days the spotlight still played about the Coolidges. Their comings and goings were recorded by the press. Omni-snooping reporters went around interviewing Mrs. Coolidge while she dusted up her house. After three days, however, Mr. Coolidge was able to go out on his front porch in shirt sleeves at 7:40 a.m., pick up the morning papers and let out the dog, without being photographed. ¶ The Coolidge retinue likewise went its way. Major Coupal, the former White House physician, prepared to return to Washington. Everett Sanders, former Secretary to the President, went to Chicago...
...this period belong the electric hobbyhorse and Alice Roosevelt Longworth's remark about being weaned on a dill pickle. Paul Smith's, N. Y., 1926. The 1926 vacation was the one of the great confession. Sitting in an old green wicker rocking-chair on an- Adirondack porch, Calvin Coolidge told Bruce Barton of his early life, his later thoughts. "As I now recall it," he said, "I had always rather hoped that I might keep store when I grew up. ... I have never been able to think that fate was guiding my destiny. I have rather felt that...