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...still to be answered." A week before his death, in a little shack in Palo Alto, he penciled a typical testament: "It is ... my wish . . . that my ashes be thrown loose into the sea, or into some sizable stream running to the sea; that no tombstone, slab, epitaph, effigy, tablet, inscription, or monument of any name or nature, be set up in my memory or name in any place or at any time; that no obituary, memorial, portrait or biography of me, nor any letters written to or by me be printed or published, or in any way reproduced, copied...
...entrance to Leverett House there is an impressive tablet commemorating the Harvard men who fell in the War. In the hall, the other day, a blue-jacketed messenger boy was seen scratching his head in sore perpierity. Stopping one of the men, he queried, "Hey, bud, does Smith live in this here place...
...sfunny," said the youngster, pointing to the tablet, "I don't see his name nowhere...
...quiet string music she heard nothing. But the programs were enough gratification as her mind reviewed them. In three days, of the 23 works played, 13 were dedicated to her, five were first performances anywhere, four first in the U. S. On the wall was a new bronze tablet, proclaiming Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge the "fairy godmother of chamber music." The unfamiliar harmonies bewildered many of the Berkshire neighbors but they knew that the tablet was placed where it belonged: it was in Pittsfield. 16 years ago, that Mrs. Coolidge began to concentrate on musical philanthropies...
...waited for him to leave the train, three people fainted from the heat. Later in the day as he spoke to 25,000 people with a sultry thundercloud overhead, the perspiration ran in streams down his dusty cheeks. At Rochester, Minn., when he spoke at the presentation of a tablet to Drs. Charles and William Mayo, some of the spectators thought that the great Mayo Brothers were weeping. Those who stood closer saw that the rivulets upon their faces were not tears but sweat. Several dozen enthusiastic listeners were taken to the hospital with heat strokes, but the President went...