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Lawyer Reese Parmelee is rich, wellborn, intelligent, young, tall and thewed like an ox. He is fearsome in war and agile in the boudoir. He is, in fact, cast from the same heroic mold as George Washington's bronze horse, and his problems, one would think, could hardly be more trying than shooing away the pigeons of circumstance-tax collectors, importunate beauties, photographers wanting to capture his grandeur in whisky ads. Yet Parmelee broods, and it is a credit to the author that readers are persuaded to take it seriously...
...inside a gilded dream, that fools no one, of being a fine-born gentleman. He rides a thoroughbred mare while making his daughter a slavey; he sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade. His fiery daughter Sara, has a wellborn young American in tow, and when it comes out that the boy's father wants no truck with the peat-bog Melodys, Con rides swaggeringly forth to avenge such an insult with a challenge, only to stumble blankly home, all the posturing and pride crushed...
...Beckman Instruments' Helipot Division plant at Newport Beach, Calif., and Ed Stone picked up a similar award for his U.S. Pavilion in Brussels. Winner of the A.I.A. Gold Medal, reserved as an accolade for a lifetime's accomplishment: a leading Chicago architect and modern pioneer, John Wellborn Root, 70, whose glass-façaded A. O. Smith Engineering Building in Milwaukee, designed in 1928, was 25 years ahead of the field...
...Years of Growth. Through the next 17 years T.R. groped toward power along what one friend called "an eccentric orbit." Shrugging off the wealthy, wellborn friends who warned him that politics was "low," he joined Manhattan's 21st District Republican Club, got elected and re-elected to three rambunctious years in the lower house of the .New York State legislature. In the winter of 1884 T.R.'s wife Alice died in childbirth, and he headed west to the solace of the silent spaces of the North Dakota Territory. "Black care," he said, "rarely sits behind a rider whose...
After a first-period fumble gave the Irish a touchdown, the Middies took command as if they were scrimmaging with a squad of plebes. Quarterback Tom Forrestal called plays with professional precision; when he needed extra yardage, Fullback Ray ("Tex") Wellborn was always ready to oblige. A tireless transfer student from Rice Institute, Wellborn ran for two touchdowns, caught a Forrestal pass for a third. Final score: 20-6. "I just happened to be following those big horses," said he. "Tom called 'em, I ran 'em, they blocked 'em." Which was a modest way of saying that...