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...Calvin Coolidge. Written by John Shaw Billings (then National Affairs editor, now editorial director), the story told simply and very clearly how the news of his death came to the Senate, the House, President Hoover, and to Mrs. Aurora Pierce, "longtime Coolidge housekeeper" at Plymouth, Vt. She "heard a tap on the homestead window. Allen Brown, a neighbor, was outside. She raised the sash to hear him say: 'Calvin's dead, Aurora.' " TIME told how the stockmarket, shocked, had fallen and then "closed with a brief little rally -a farewell salute to the man whose name...
Squads of dormitory and commuter workers will tap every 'Cliffedweller this week for a minimum donation of one book in good condition or its equivalent in cash...
Work was said to be progressing on the 2,400 foot standard guage cable railway on Thorn Mountain's steep slopes at Jackson. The owner hopes to have his railway, which will tap many new slopes on Thorn and Middle Mountains, operating sometime this month...
...meeting tonight, the Committee will discuss a possible advance of the February date, tentatively set in December, in order to give more time for inviting the outside talent which the group hopes to tap...
...architectural price Sears paid to get into the Country Club District in Kansas City, Mo. The District is the second biggest, and, with its Plaza shopping center, the most successful privately run residential development in the U.S. Sears figured the price was small enough for a chance to tap the area's purchasing power. Sears was right. Opening day, 100,000 potential customers came to gawk at the tile and ornamental grillwork. Many went inside and spent a total...