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...Stanford football team of 1894 of which Herbert Hoover was treasurer assembled at the White House last week for a reunion (TIME, Nov. 16). After greeting his old teammates the President led them out to the rear posing ground for pictures. In his soft hand he gingerly balanced a brand new football, marked '94. Then he went back to his office- "probably to count the gate receipts," jibed one old footballer. Because he was a good Hoover friend and biographer and onetime Stanford cheer leader, Will Irwin was invited to the reunion. He waved his arms excitedly while...
...Texas) as guards held an impregnable line. The "treasurer" of that 1894 team was a young fellow named "Bert" Hoover who managed to clear expenses with enough over to buy the team new uniforms. This week the same "Bert" Hoover invited his old teammates to hold their annual reunion in the Lincoln Study of the White House. Judge Abraham Lewis (substitute) was coming all the way from Honolulu and Martin Herbert Kennedy (full back) from' his post as commercial attache at the U. S. Embassy in London. An absentee: Steuart Walker Cotton, left end, former engineer in the Philippines...
Marcel Mouillot spent a month painting the desert, the Egyptian villages. Then he shipped East again. In a hurricane in the Indian Ocean he was nearly swept overboard, had one foot seriously injured. He spent weeks on the little known island of Reunion in the South Indian Ocean and explored the islands off Madagascar in a pirogue. Last May he was back in Paris and held his first important one-man show. Critics, especially M. Brummer, enthused...
President Garfield, in office from March 4, 1881, to July 2, 1881 when he was shot, never made a speech of any sort to the G. A. R. While campaigning in 1880, he made a "Boys in Blue Speech." an "Army of Cumberland Speech," "Reunion with His Old Regiment" and "Inauguration of Soldiers and Sailors Monument" (Painesville, Ohio). In none of these speeches is there any resemblance however remote to President Hoover's Detroit speech to the American Legion...
...festival, a holiday combining the most enjoyable features of an old Roman gladiatorial struggle, a burlesque show, and a Memorial Day Parade. If the weather is fine, one prefers, perhaps, to play a round of golf, but usually it is more amusing to take part in this Saturday reunion with the excitement of the crowd, the bands, and the gay colors...