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...shed. One bus broke down and a car was hired. Then the railroad's top officials heard about the rustic crisis, quickly fetched old Flyerman George Nicholson from another line. Said George warmly: "I jumped at the chance. For seven years I fired this train. I'm fond...
Another feature which Lowell is proud of is its carillon bells. An anecdote that Perkins is fond of telling concerns the mysterious silence of these bells. The seventeen-bell, carillon came from Russia complete with an expert, who started to perform immediately...
Though Mama sometimes looks at the ruder aspects of life, it still sees them through a romantic haze. Things seldom go absolutely right; they never go irrevocably wrong. For most of Mama's big, fond audience, the family favorite is pig-tailed Dagmar, caught at just the right note of sentiment and practicality by nine-year-old Robin Morgan. In theory, each Mama episode takes up a different member of the family; in practice, Robin often steals the show. Producer Carol Irwin observes with awe that radio-trained Robin has somehow developed a "wonderful sense of timing...
...gingerbread Wallace house on Independence's elm-lined North Delaware Street, where Judge and Mrs. Harry Truman lived with her mother, little Margaret was brought up under fond, watchful eyes, in carefully guarded privacy. Bess and Harry were doting parents, partly because their only child was born to them late, when each was close to 40, partly because she was a delicate child thin and pale, with frequent deep circles under her eyes. There were other doting relatives: a cluster of uncles and aunts Mrs. David ("Grandmother") Wallace. Bess's mother, and redoubtable Grandmother ("Mama") Truman. Margaret admits...
Toward Good Manners. The Ambassador is now fond of tracing his internationalist evolution from a bar-association meeting he attended at Montreal in 1913. Among the distinguished speakers was Britain's Lord High Chancellor Viscount Haldane, who discoursed on the growing evidence of international good manners created by national selfdiscipline...