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Aaron is a New England boy, raised in the Berkshires, "not tall nor short, with a brush of chestnut hair, and brown eyes that were serene and markedly friendly, his forehead noble and clear as a scholar's -or an actor's-only a fair dancer but a competent drinker." His dying grandfather, who had Episcopal leanings, was "a merry and evil old man who remembered the days . . . when, small though he was, he could swing a quarryman's sledge and make a woman moan with love." He had urged Aaron to become a rebel...
...Admiral stay in his stall. Citation, 1948's wonder horse, looked like an obvious shoo-in. Then Citation injured his left foreleg, and temporarily retired from the wars. Hastily Mrs. Graham's Maine Chance Farm shipped Ace Admiral west, and plunked down $5,000 for the handsome chestnut colt's late entry in the Maturity...
Anthony J. Sabelli of Chestnut Hill and Providence, R.I.: Photography Editor of the '49 Senior Album; Former Properties Manager for Ivy Films...
Like the "veal" on another menu, the "Hungarian goulash" around the corner, the prime roasts and shepherd's pies at still other restaurants, the lady's pate had been, a few days earlier, a long-legged foal romping after a chestnut mother not long retired from a dairy cart. Last week it was still illegal in Britain to kill horses under seven years old for food or serve it in restaurants if other meat was available...
Harvard Club of Philadelphia, C. Walten Randall, Jr. '36, 2301 Packard Building, 15th and Chestnut sts,; Harvard Club of Rochester, Treadwell Ruml '39, 1927 Sibley Tower Building; Harvard Club of St. Louis, C. Ford Morrill '34, 1601 Railway Exchange Building...