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Curious people who wish to see so magnetic a personality had best not write for an appointment. In his book-littered bachelor quarters he piles the day's mail, unopened, on a great oak table. Over this a newspaper is spread on which the following day's mail goes. This unique filing system usually collapses after a few days; the mail is thrown in the wastebasket by a despairing housekeeper...
...Horatio, Ark., Fred Brown celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day he began to live in a large oak tree belonging to Tom Green. On coming to Horatio 25 years ago, he secured a room at the hotel, fixed a peculiar lock on the door, said in a German accent, "Just call me Fred Brown." On finding the landlord snooping in his room, Fred Brown removed his belongings, moved to a large tank near the railroad. Annoyed by curious townsfolk, Fred Brown had the ends of his tank sliced off for doors, hoisted the tank into Tom Green...
Outside the Senate, he leads an active if restricted, life in Washington's most exclusive society. In his imposing mansion, "Single Oak," onetime home of Josephus Daniels, Wilson's Secretary of the Navy, set back from Cathedral Avenue in large, meticulously landscaped grounds, he entertains often and well. With the present Mrs. Phipps he displays to guests of the right social stamp generous hospitality in his Denver home, his Colorado mountain retreat, his Los Angeles estate...
...Oak Park, 111.. George D. Brown exhibited a small goldfish, Blondy, which he had trained to swim up to the top of his bowl when called...
...year ago, about three miles from Grand Junction, Tenn., a white and liver pointer bitch stopped short crossing a field and stood with her head turned into the wind, toward a patch of scrub oak 20 yards away. A moment later, a bevy of quail slanted into the air and someone blew a whittle. A shot gun went off, loud in the quiet fields, and there was a sudden babble of men's voices. "Did you see her on that last find? . . . As great a bitch as ever won the National...