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...learned telegraphy. At 19 he was a train dispatcher. On his salary of $110 a month, he married Lena A. Schatz, a rural schoolteacher, and took a short time off for his honeymoon. It was his last vacation for 35 years...
...harness maker's son from Iowa, who had risen to a position more powerful than many kings's, bowed out. His friends said he would write his memoirs, if his health permitted. He would have much to tell about: the Hundred Days of the New Deal honeymoon, the fractious days of WPA, the vindictive days of the 1938 purge, the bustling days after Pearl Harbor, and the days of high-policy travel when Casablanca, Cairo, Teheran, Quebec and Yalta became places of international decision...
...Nothing I write," says Author Wheaton in this light, gay record of her year-long (1935) honeymoon in the bleak Aleutians, "can possibly . . . show [me] to be a woman of strength and initiative." As wife of the local prekaska (storekeeper), and the only white woman on Atka, Helen regarded her Aleut neighbors with amazement streaked with alarm. The black haired, giggling, almond-eyed Aleuts, smelling strongly and permanently of fish, regarded Helen in turn with open admiration...
...long tradition, Harry Truman was guaranteed a honeymoon of months, perhaps longer. Then he would be tested in the fire of criticism and controversy. But for the time being, the ranks were closed. The United States were still united-behind a new leader...
...elegant Hotel New Angleterre, in Athens, was a favorite honeymoon spot at the turn of the century. Years ago, Boston's blueblood lawyer Robert Gray Dodge stayed there. Last week, one of its shabby, faded rooms with a wash basin in the corner was the office of his handsome, curly-blonde daughter, Lieut. Colonel Katherine ("Khaki") Dodge, 43, the U.S. Public Health Service's only woman Senior Surgeon on active relief duty...