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Into Albany's high-vaulted Washington Avenue Armory last week streamed 2,000 New York Central Railroad stockholders, primed for the showdown in the long and dirty fight for control of the road. Amid the popping of flashbulbs, President William White strode into the hall. After him came his archrival and pretender to the job of running the Central, Robert R. Young. Both men had come up from Manhattan on a special stockholders' train, had carefully avoided each other as they and their cohorts went about handshaking, passing out campaign buttons, and politicking for proxies...
Nishuane Elementary School in Montclair, N.J., and the President had a personal, perhaps a vested, interest in them. After greeting the kids, the President spotted their Negro teacher. He strode over and shook hands. "Hello, Johnny, it's good to see you," he said to John H. Hunt, who was his mess sergeant in World...
...conference room of the White House last week, eight boys and a girl, aged eleven to 13, gathered with their parents to await the President. Finally, Dwight Eisenhower strode through the door. Beaming broadly, he presented a special award to each child. The medals and citations were well deserved, for the nine winners, School Safety Patrolmen all, had each been responsible for saving a life. When the President had finished with the children, he turned to their parents. "You must be proud of them," said...
...example, who introduced King Charles to Nell Gwynn and arranged for the King to discover the Duchess of Cleveland in bed with Jack Churchill. He dabbled in chemistry, playwriting, poetry and music, and' his swordsmanship was such that peaceful men turned pale and ladies swooned when he strode into their presence. Along with his fellow rakes, Buckingham was in and out of the royal favor like a gaudy shuttle -though Charles was too indulgent to fuss when Buckingham ran his sword through the Earl of Shrewsbury, husband of Buckingham's mistress. "I am sorry to find that cuckolds...
...voice was husky with controlled emotion. The reporters would pardon him, he said, if he declined to talk about something that he didn't think was something to talk about very much. He just hoped that it was all concluded very quickly. And with that the President strode from the room...