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...record at Hillsdale must certainly have looked good to Maine's athletic directors. "Tad" Wieman. In two seasons, Nelson's team lost just one game, while winning 14 and tying...
...Abraham Lincoln sits at home as his young sons clamber over him; they "patted his cheeks, pulled his nose and poked their fingers in his eyes." The sons were roughnecks: "Willie and Tad . . . rifled the drawers and riddled boxes, battered the points of my gold pens against the stairs, turned over the inkstands on "the papers. ... I wanted to wring the necks of these brats and pitch them out of the windows...
...East Room. Here, on another April afternoon, Abraham Lincoln's body had lain, his little sons Tad and Robert sitting at his feet, General Ulysses S. Grant in sash and white gloves at his head. Lincoln's coffin had rested under a black canopy so high it almost touched the ceiling. Windows, mirrors and. chandeliers had been smothered in crepe and the room had been ostentatiously gloomy. Now the East Room was just a corner of a big house, long lived...
...rather a dandy, in a loud way. His favorite sport was poker. He could be a wonderfully entertaining host. William Randolph Hearst loved him. His own close friends were chiefly comic-strip artists - Hershfield, Ru dolph Dirks (The Captain and the Kids}, Jim Swinnerton (Little Jimmy), the late TAD Dorgan (Indoor Sports). His best friend was the late H. M. (Beanny) Walker, Our Gang comedies director...
...large exception is Helen Traubel, a redhaired, green-eyed, 200-lb. Midwesterner who for the past four years has been singing more & more Wagnerian leads at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Rated by some critics the vocal equal of famed Kirsten Flags tad (whose roles she has inherited), Helen Traubel is far & away the finest U.S. Wagnerian soprano of her generation, and one of the three or four finest in the world. Last week, as the Metropolitan's annual Wagner cycle came to an end, Traubel could claim an added distinction: no other U.S. soprano since Nordica had sung...