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...Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson, whose Christmas card bore the prayer, got it from a book called Think on These Things by the Rev. Dr. John Ellis Large (rector of Manhattan's Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest), who, in turn, had clipped and saved the original from a newspaper some 25 years ago when he was a student at Hartford's Trinity College...
...great-grandfather: Inventor-Industrialist Peter Cooper, builder in 1830 of the first U.S. steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb); reportedly of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Monterrey, Mexico. Ann Cooper's sensational charges collapsed after the two doctors were acquitted and her mother died. Married six times, she never bore a child...
...Wrote Truman: "Baruch is the only man to my knowledge who has built a reputation on a self-assumed unofficial status as [presidential] 'adviser.'" Truman said that the 1946 U.S. atomic-control proposals which bore Baruch's name were mainly drawn up by Dean Acheson and former AEC Chairman David Lilienthal. From Hobcaw Barony, his South Carolina plantation, Baruch retorted, "When the full story of the drafting of our atomic-energy proposals is made public, including all and not part of the facts in Mr. Truman's possession, history will show no basis for this display...
...burial place of the great Jewish philosopher Maimonides (1135-1205) was determined, so legend has it, when the camel that bore his bones from Cairo to Palestine refused to budge from a spot near the Sea of Galilee. In time, the modern city of Tiberias grew up around the old square stone that marked his grave. The burial ground became a grubby lot littered with shacks and privies...
Quacks have always preyed on those who believe that banishing the malaise cures the malady. But to doctors nowadays, concerned with basic cause and cure, "mere relief of a symptom looks petty and the problem . . . seems a bore...