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...hero of the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. (On page 306, the book says he was buried in 1775.) These were among more than 200 errors of fact turned up by a white-haired, peppery schoolteacher named Nell Battle Lewis, who writes a column in the Raleigh News and Observer. Miss Lewis described the whole thing as A POLITICAL STINK...
After the meetings, William and Mary entertained with a luncheon in the Great Hall of the College. In the evening the group dined as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. at Raleigh Tavern. A harpsichord concert followed the dinner and completed the day's activities...
...evening the Overseers and the ladies of the party will be given a dinner at the Raleigh Tavern by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. On Sunday they will attend morning services at Bruton Parish Church, after which they will entertain their hosts at luncheon at the Williamsburg...
...Raleigh, N. C., authorities discovered that the man holding Social Security number 123,456,789 was one John...
Subjects of the speeches ranged from excerpts out of Sir Walter Raleigh's "The History of the World" to a selection from John Dos Passos' "U.S.A." Lipson recited from "Statement to the Court on Being Convicted of Treason" by Sir Roger Casement, an Irish patriot who was hanged during the last war, and Thayer chose parts of Stephen Vincent Benet's "Notes to Be Left on a Cornerstone." Charles took selections from a speech of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., while Henry quoted a section of Melville's "Moby Dick." Nichols, the first speaker, used T. S. Eliot's poem, "Coriolan...