Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Court and most of the members of the Johnson Cabinet were there. The leaders of Congress were well represented. So was the newspaper-publishing industry-the Otis Chandlers of Los Angeles, the Palmer Hoyts of Denver, the Arthur Sulzbergers of New York. Top Washington Lawyers (and sometime Johnson advisers) Abe Fortas and Clark Clifford were present. So were Laurance Rockefeller and Harvard Law School Dean...
...receptions and parties that seemed to be glowing everywhere, like so many hearthsides on a winter's day. There was a good deal of social handicapping about which ones were the really chic occasions (among the leaders: a joint reception given by Philanthropist Mary Lasker and Washington Lawyer Abe Fortas, parties thrown by Gwen Cafritz and Perle Mesta...
Most U.S. newspapers are similarly prepared, though the obituary inventories vary widely, from the Boston Globe's ten entries to the New York Times's 2,000 (Ferhat Abbas to Adolph Zukor), some of them set in type. Times Metropolitan Editor Abe Rosenthai, whose responsibilities include custody of the obituary files, assigns their preparation to appropriate members of the paper's editorial staff. When President Kennedy died in Dallas, White House Correspondent Tom Wicker had on his desk, undischarged, the duty of updating the Kennedy obituary. As a new Times hand in 1946, Rosenthal himself contributed...
...Dean Burch: Yogi Berra's reward was being fired for not taking the World Series. What would Burch suggest for the manager of a '64 political-pennant contender who strengthened his pitching staff for the race by trading Abe Lincoln for Strom Thurmond...
...decide whether Bousgarbiès' injury is worth 1 franc. Appeals may drag on for a year. Despite the general levity, though, Bousgarbiès has received hundreds of letters from French patriots who seem just as mad as Americans would be at a TV bike race between Abe Lincoln and Jeff Davis...