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...leaders if Harry Truman decided not to run (TIME, March 19). The job, he said, requires "the brooding qualities of Lincoln, the philosophic depth of Jefferson, the sturdiness of Cleveland and the daring of Franklin Roosevelt. He needs the patience of Job and must have the physique of a Sandow." Douglas figured that he worried too much, probably would not live a month under the nervous strain...
Those chosen were: Herbert Hoskins of Wesleyan University, Douglas Sandow of the University of Rochester, Thomas Skeel of Amherst, James Fogelman of Dartmouth, Burt Lund of the University of Minnesota, George Tabor of UCLA, and Lewis Sandler '42, of Harvard...
...family name was originally Sandow. Dr. Charles is a distant relative of Eugene Sandow, famed oldtime strongman...
From its files the Examiner drew many a great news story with which in days gone by it had roused San Franciscans: the mysterious Nob Hill haunted house scare (1888), the City Hall building fraud of 1891; the visit of Strong Man Eugene Sandow in 1894 when the blond Hercules separately moved each & every muscle of his body; the horrid "Belfry Murders"-two young women church workers, one chopped up, one strangled and stowed in a steeple (1895); the kidnapping and torture of aged Sugar Planter James Campbell...
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. opens his movie career barking for Sandow at Chicago's World's Fair in 1883, and dies broke on Broadway amid souvenirs of his, the finest shows of the era. His life crosses Little Egypt, Klaw and Erlanger, Stanford White, Harry K. Thaw, Lillian Russell, and started on their way such stars as Fannie Brice, Anna Held, Jerome Kern, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Billie Burke, Harriet Hoctor, Ray Bolger, and the glorified American girl. Revolutionizing the New York stage he began by copying foreign revues and built successively his follies, his shows on the roof garden...