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Apocryphal. Mother Cleveland died three years before her son was first inaugurated in 1885.-ED. Allan Nevins in his Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (Dodd, Mead, 1932) quotes Cleveland as saying, after the inauguration of McKinley, "I envy him today only one thing, and that was the presence of his own mother at his inauguration. I would have given anything in the world if my mother could have been at my inauguration...
Hardy Mrs. Mollison. Current idols of British hero-worshippers are the flying bride-&-groom, James Allan Mollison and Amy Johnson Mollison. Both have made distinguished record flights, notably his London-Cape Town and his recent solo westward across the Atlantic (TIME, Aug. 29). Last week Britons went wild with delight when Mrs. Mollison beat her husband's Cape Town record by 10½ hours, making the flight from Lympne, on the Kent coast, in 4 days, 7 hr. It was an amazing exhibition of stamina. Flying a light Puss Moth named The Desert Cloud she landed only four times, caught three...
...sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft: $5,637,233.41 each to Daughters Jane Taft Ingalls (mother of David Sinton Ingalls, defeated last week for Ohio's Governorship) and Anna Louise Taft Semple: $1,000,000 to the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. By Allan Pinkerton, late president of famed Pinkerton's National Detective Agency; $1,040,515.18: to Son Robert Allan Pinkerton. By Edmund Roebling, last of famed Bridge-builder John Roebling's four sons (see p. 37); $14,788,160 to twelve nephews and nieces...
...Another favorite is 836, which squared gives 698,896, a palindrome (reads both ways). He likes 347 because it is a prime number, the year of Plato's death, and the telephone number of the rector of the University of Vilna [Dr. Aleksander Janusykiewicz]. He remembers that Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849 because 1849 is the square...
GROVER CLEVELAND-Allan Kevins -Dodd, Mead ($5). Full, authoritative...