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...proclaimed Theodore Roosevelt Week. Reminiscently, he harked back to the early days of World War I when ex-President Roosevelt volunteered to serve in Europe as a division commander. Said Ike: "I remember so well in the regiment in which I was then serving in Texas, at least a half-dozen young officers went up to the adjutant to put down our names to say could we go to the division commanded by Theodore Roosevelt." (Roosevelt's offer, however, was firmly rejected by President Woodrow Wilson, his bitter political enemy...
...always got to his office at 8 a.m. He traveled to villages where no American had ever been seen before, delivered speeches in good Spanish before civic groups, labor unions and schoolchildren at the rate of two a week."He has dedicated more sewers, slaughterhouses and clinics than a half-dozen politicians," wrote one admiring Salvadoran newspaperman. Once, when he turned up at a dinner celebrating the opening of a library in dusty Suchitoto (pop. 10,619), he called in the cook, asked her to dance with...
...President greeted the rollers from the balcony. Then, with his daughter-in-law, David and Barbara Anne, he walked into the midst of the mob. As the people closed in, making retreat impossible, Ike picked up his granddaughter. David was bumped so hard he lost another half-dozen eggs. Ike's retreat was cut off. Finally a flying wedge of Secret Service men led the Eisenhowers out a side gate, back to the White House by way of a side street. Said Ike: "I didn't think the kids would take such a beating...
Died. Raoul Dufy, 75, one of the grand old men of modern school-of-Paris art, generally ranked among the top half-dozen contemporary French painters; of a heart attack; in the Provençal village of Forcalquier. Partially crippled by arthritis for the past 15 years, Dufy never let pain or gloom color his work. He was famed chiefly for lighthearted, bright-hued racing and yachting scenes...
...line with its appeal for men who like to live, as well as study, Leverett offers a half-dozen squash courts right in the House. The prime attraction, however, is the Leverett Tennis Court, directly adjacent to Mather Hall...