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...wrinkly little infant who was to be named George Michael Cohan let out his first faint caw, firecrackers were popping in Providence, R. I. Bands were playing. It was July 4, 1878,* a birthday worthy of one who was to be famed as the greatest and most successful flag-waver in the U. S. show business. This week George M. Cohan is to wave a flag in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to introduce a song called "What a Man!" in honor of President Roosevelt's 52nd birthday. The Manhattan celebration will be one of 5,000 throughout...
...hole of a sectional golf tournament played at St. Augustine, Fla. in 1925. The man he was playing against hooked his shot, waved his club angrily. The next thing Mr. Evans knew he was lying on the fairway with a painful lump rapidly rising on his forehead. The club-waver was curly-haired Clair Maxwell. Life's president. A year later Mr. Evans quit his sportwriting job and was working for his assailant. He became Life's managing editor, is still its cinema critic...
...obtaining a tight grip on all steam patents. The result was that other manufacturers turned to gasoline engines, started propaganda against steamers. In 1906 White offered to license its patents but found no takers. Quick to sense the change, the management turned to gasoline engines although it did not waver in its belief that steamers were safer, faster, more economical than gasoline cars...
...father's good friend C. R. Rajagopalachari. A war rant was out for the arrest of Devi Das. If he tried to go to the northwestern frontier, where trouble was brewing, he knew he would surely be captured. Be tween love and duty Devi Das did not long waver. He went to the railroad station in New Delhi where a squad of police men pounced upon him, clapped him into jail. Said he: "While I am deeply at tached to my fiancee, it would not be right for me to seek happiness in marriage while my father and mother...
When the sudden shout startled millions of Germans their President was actually saying, "Let us face the coming days and their trials hand-in-hand. Let us not waver. . . . The Lord has saved Germany from deep distress before. He will not forsake...