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...signer's chair was a problem. The M. H. De Young Memorial Museum offered a massive, not-so-early-American number that Daniel Webster had used. But Webster's chair was too narrow for some of the delegates. So the officials selected another Louis Quinze chair for the signing...
...passionate one and the sensible one, be, with the latter seeking only re-election. In the same way, there are two sorts of summer stock managers: the one who re-stages the old standbys and the one who experiments with new talent. John Huntington, who first promoted the Margaret Webster "Othello" and the Margaret Webster "Othello" and the current "Dark of the moon," may well have another candidate for Broadway...
...mouse, Australia's rip-snorting Herbert Vere Evatt said that the Big Five interpretation was narrower than a version given previously by Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with huggin'). Britain's Professor Charles Kingsley Webster said that Sir Alexander made a mistake because New Zealand's Peter Fraser caught him by surprise with a question. Fraser retorted that Cadogan had checked the transcript of the answer with him. Snapped Fraser to Webster: "Don't try to slide out by making misstatements. What you are doing is dishonest." U.S. Senator Tom Connally, who was presiding, got Fraser...
...Rhyme or Reason. Authors and publishers will be hard put to it to find from this volume why these best-sellers were bestsellers. The Bible remains the champion best-seller of all times, but its closest U.S. competitor is Noah Webster's Blue-Back Speller, a textbook first published in 1790 which has sold more than 100 million copies...
General Mark Clark, lanky field commander of the Italian campaign, showed up in his home city and was roundly cheered by hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans, soundly bussed by his wife and daughter, Ann. He got home in time to attend Ann's graduation exercises at Marjorie Webster Junior College, Washington, D.C. and Cadet Mark W. Clark Jr.'s, at West Point, (see EDUCATION...