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...grade: U.S. slavery and its abolition...
...grade: Negro military heroes, contemporary Chicago Negroes...
...clock to get in a few sets of tennis. On the courts of Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, he plays (lefthanded) a hard-plugging but ungraceful game with his sister or brother-in-law, Swiss Minister Charles Brugmann, occasionally matches strokes with other grade B-minus players like Nelson Rockefeller, Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal or Justice Hugo Black...
...Gardner's in dignities are delivered with a kazoo-voiced good nature which keeps everybody happy, including his victims. Three writers turn out the original script, but the final version is practically all Gardner ("The boys do a rough draft and I tear it down"). The result is grade-A American foolery...
...Francisco's earthquake jolted Storekeeper Luhn out of the fifth grade, set him to selling newspapers. After service as an artillery private in World War I, he went back to San Francisco to work for the man who owned the shop he owns now. (His partner, astute Mrs. Alice Argus Brady, was bookkeeper for the former owner.) His 96-year-old grandmother takes care of Bachelor Luhn. He says of her: "She is very important...