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Shrewdly building up suspense for his acceptance speech this week, Governor Landon lost not a day in the public eye by his silence. All week long a host of volunteer talkers trod each other's heels at his doorstep. And out of their political No Man's Land marched three long-disgruntled Democrats to enlist formally under the banner of their onetime enemies...
Among those pulled to safety in the Pan American rescue launch were onetime Actress Claiborne Foster (Mrs. Maxwell Rice) and famed Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi, bound on a South American tour. In the melee someone trod violently on the musician's wrist. He announced sadly that he would not be able to play for several months...
...instance, the Class possesses a Roosevelt who does not plan to enter politics in Theodore Roosevelt, 3rd. He will forsake the path trod by his grandfather, his father, and his fifth cousin, once removed, to become an ordinary business man. The scion of another family, significant in American history, David Rockefeller, also plans to enter business after a year or two of graduate study in economics...
Political bird dogs quivered at the scent of a Hoover-Landon deal week before last when John Hamilton, Republican National Committee general counsel, and the following Hoover associates trod on each other's heels at the Governor's mansion: one-time Vice President Charles Curtis; Mark L. Requa, California National Committeeman; Henry J. Allen, Kansas' onetime Governor and U. S. Senator; William M. Jardine, Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture and Hoover Minister to Egypt...
These are but a few of Dartmouth's gridders, . . . the gridders who will seek today to carry on the rivalry which has been for years a source of the greatest satisfaction to both colleges. Before them have trod such famous Dartmouth men as Dooley, Diehl, Oberlander, Tully, McPhail, Land, and a host of others. In the footsteps of these, with their eyes turned toward victory, the Dartmouth team will walk today...