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...Yellow Oval Room and the adjoining room on the second floor may have spawned the most intimate and exotic stories. Adams gave that first public reception in that Oval Room, and it became Andrew Jackson's family parlor. First Lady Abigail Fillmore moved in her piano and her daughter's harp. When Congress anted up $2,000 for books, she established the first White House Library...
...James K. Polk's Cabinet Room, next door to the Yellow Oval Room, that one of the most fateful discoveries in U.S. history was confirmed. There on Dec. 7, 1848, Secretary of War William Marcy put a heavily laden tea caddy on the table and stepped back for Polk's scrutiny. The caddy contained 230 oz. of gold dust and nuggets from California, proof of the wild and heady stories that had seeped back East...
...yesterday a group of about 25 students carried cardboard boxes heaped with yellow pieces of paper, stamped "VOID" and each affixed to a satay skewer. They then planted the "ballots," across the southeast end of the common...
With fewer than 11 minutes left on the clock, Harvard earned a corner kick, which Stewart sailed in front of the Hartford net. While the ball was still in the air, Kayulu committed a critical gaffe, knocking the ball to the ground with her hand. The act drew a yellow card and afforded Stewart a free shot on Nilssen...
...lost others to AIDS. The Elton John who wrote Daniel, with its baffled yearning, is the one who loves the blue-tinted male nudes of John Dugdale, with their Victorian grief. The somber undercurrent is plain even in Andres Serrano's vivid crimson circle in a rectangle of bright yellow, which on closer inspection turns out to be a pool of blood...