1. "Mr. Ed"
- Author
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Wilson, Edmund
- Subjects
BUSINESSPEOPLE ,ADVENTURE & adventurers ,YACHTING ,PERSONALITY ,IMITATIVE behavior ,REMINISCENCE ,ETIQUETTE ,ANXIETY ,MONEY - Abstract
Focuses on the adventures of E.E. Paramore, a businessman, who died in California on May 25, 1928. Report that he devoted as much time and attention to yachting, his favorite sport, as to any of them and his great passion was for ships; Personality of Paramore; Report that he had the most extraordinary gift of mimicking the way people talked and could apparently, reproduce the local accents and dialects of every part of the U.S.; Report that perhaps the most extraordinary thing about all the reminiscences was the love of life which they revealed; Report that his manners had the heartiness of the West and the dignity and ease of the South; Report that his last years were troubled by the anxiety to make money to leave to his sons, who were perfectly well able to take care of themselves.
- Published
- 1928