Sir Jeremy Beecham, who was acting as Mr Blair's warm-up man in the main hall, thanked Mrs Stihler and her campaign team, eliciting a ripple of applause from the hall.

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The following year, it became evident that the baseball writers were beginning to warm up to the idea of Bert Blyleven as a Hall of Famer.

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On warm days, eat on the covered patio at Vinodol, and in winter, in the vaulted dining hall.

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Roosevelt's hard- won belief in the benefits of what we would now call "holistic treatment" governed Warm Springs, and his jaunty spirit was everywhere especially strong, Shreve recalls, in the dining hall, where a chair at the head table was always left vacant.

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