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...city "where the people talk only to Beichman but Beichman can't talk to the Gov.," fair-minded Governor Saltonstall backtracked some more. He granted Reporter Beichman a 15-minute interview which began with a "Glad to see you," and included the admission "I had a rude awakening on Monday...
North Carolina was founded on Columbus Day, 1793 by a Princeton graduate, Revolutionary Cavalryman William Richardson Davie, later governor of the state. Draping himself in his finery as a Masonic Grand Master, he repaired to a rude country crossroads where the local citizenry had provided free land for a college. There he was aided in laying the cornerstone of what is now East Hall by his fellow Princetonian Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, who hoped to see the land "adorned with an elegant village...
...well aware, the Juniors have arrived with their customary carefree cherubic countenances. Most of them look as if they had not previously had a care in the world and had actually been getting enough sleep. What a rude awakening awaits them...
During these years, many regular Army officers went softly to seed. A few-a very few-burned themselves out and annoyed their colleagues with pioneering studies in tactics and a rude espousal of modern forms of war. (Two examples: the late Billy Mitchell of the Air Corps; the late Adna Chaffee of the armored force.) Many cavalrymen, sensing the end of their service, went into the embryo tank service...
...never having visited "touristy" Revolutionary landmarks are now setting out from Boston's Park Square, in horse-drawn busses, to visit Old North Church and Bunker Hill; now go by bus and train to see the Minute Man statue on Lexington's Green and Concord's "rude bridge that arched the flood...