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...Laing investigations was part of the gathering of information from members of the Dartmouth faculty who were at Hanever during the days of William Remington (Dartmouth '39), and not directed toward Laing...
Actually Catlin never could match the skill of such later Wild West witnesses as Remington and Russell. The human figure bothered him; he tended to make it too squat. He used colors more like a mapmaker than like an artist. But Catlin had the crack journalist's eye both for significant sweep and significant detail. And without being dazzled by the romance of his magnificent adventure, he felt and expressed it keenly...
...Densmore was satisfied that at last he had a marketable product, and made a deal with E. Remington & Sons, manufacturers of guns and sewing machines, to produce his writing machine. Densmore hoped his typewriter would "become as important in the literary world as the sewing machine is in the stitchetary world," and Remington obliged, at least in respect to looks. The first Remington resembled a sewing machine right down to its treadle...
Last night Huff glumly admitted in New York, "We haven't heard a thing." General MacArthur, who is currently chairman of the board of the Remington-Rand Corporation, could not be reached for comment...
...brother millionaires in that they do not dabble noisily in politics, propaganda, or welfare institutions. While they stick to business, they have their little luxuries but shun ostentation. Bachelor Richardson lives in the Fort Worth Club, has one of the finest U.S. collections of frontier paintings by Russell and Remington. Murchison shuttles between New York, Washington and a collection of city and country homes in a private DC-3, the Flying Ginny (named for his pretty second wife, Virginia, who accompanies him on many of his trips). He has a 25-room house just outside Dallas...