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...display is the baton used in directing the club in 1859, one year after the club was founded, and a series of programs dating from 1860. A glass beer mug is shown that was used in the days of the Freshman Glee Club and prewar beer. Other fond memories must be recalled by the carefully pressed rose under which is written "Presented to the secretary of the Harvard Glee Club by the young ladies of Bradford academy...
...watch. I said 'Yes, sir. I have the telephone at this station.' He stopped on the first step leading down the gangway [to the control car] and I said 'Admiral, you must like flying on this ship.' He replied 'I am very fond of it; much more so than the other (meaning HTA,* I assume). ... It is much better than the Shenandoah.' I replied 'Yes, sir' and he then proceeded to the control...
...gentleman resides more snugly than Col. Henry Stanley Todd of "The Priory," Dix Hills, Huntington. Onetime president of Universal Turbine Co., a Red Cross and Intelligence Division worker during the War, he is tall, grey-mustached and goateed, a benignant neighbor to Huntington villagers. In the evenings he is fond of calling in his Negro servants for some music-they on their guitars, Col. Todd on his drums. And Col. Todd is by no means an obscure country gentleman. The Pope knows of him. So does the Bishop of Liverpool, the King of the Belgians and many...
...Rome later, climb on his knees the famed Scala Santa (Holy Stairs) which are said to be the very ones Christ ascended in Pontius Pilate's palace. That Pius XI plans to leave Vatican City has been denied, but he keeps his own counsel, is fond of springing surprises...
Hunters sometimes eat wolf or fox meat, says Welzl, but dogs can always spot such a man. When he comes to a village "whole packs of dogs shuffle after him and water him: a man like that ought to be pitied." He confesses he is fond of bear's meat himself, says he "often ate a huge pot of bear-stew at one sitting. Sometimes I ate three bears in a month...