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Month ago Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. asked the President for permission to replace the White House telephones on twelve trunk lines with dial instruments. Fond though he is of mechanical efficiency, the President declined to work his finger instead of his voice...
...White House so soon after the Civil War might well have caused more bloodshed. Rutherford Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822, a posthumous child, descendant of sturdy New England yeomen gone pioneering westward. Studious, ambitious, active, Hayes was "of a rather gay nature, a good talker, fond of men and fonder of women." He studied law, practiced it, but was glad when the Civil War came. One of the things he liked about war was freedom from shaving. He started to let his beard grow; thereafter to the end of his life only checked it from time...
Jean Charles Millet, 32, of Barbizon, France, was extremely fond of his grandfather. Who, indeed, would not be fond of such a forbear as the late great Jean Francois Millet, painter of The Angelus and Man With Hoe? So fond was Grandson Jean Charles that last week he was ignominiously thrust into a jail in Melun. For his fondness sprang from the fact that he had been able to use his grandfather's illustrious name in a scheme to bilk the public...
Thomas Hardy was essentially a poet. Fiction began with him as an avocation, partly because he was passionately fond of the tales told him of his native Dorset, and thought something should be done about them, partly because his first popular novel (Far from the Madding Crowd) produced such a sensation, both in England and America, that he would have been stupid to quit. That he had not too high an opinion of either his prose or his poetry, he indicated in a letter to U. S. Critic Jeannette Gilder : ". . . my respect for my own writings and reputation...
...first snapping of Kroger links occurred in March when Founder-Chairman Bernard Henry Kroger resigned, accompanied by other officers near and dear to him. If Mr. Kroger Senior had been the only resignee, Cincinnatians, fond of their nation-spanning company, would have excused it on account of his 70 years and the need of aquiring a new wife, 36. But such a wholesale exodus demanded an explanation. Officially it was given as: "A friendly disagreement on business policy"-which, like many business announcements, was only partially true...