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Adlai Stevenson: “In the highest sense of the expression, he was a gentleman of the old school.”

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In the highest sense of the expression, he was a gentleman of the old school.
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Adlai Stevenson

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Stevenson describes Proctor Knott as a quintessential gentleman from a bygone era.

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