Word: abe
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Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, 50, to be Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. "If I am elected," John Kennedy once promised, "Abe Ribicoff can be anything he wants to be in my Administration." One of Kennedy's first and staunchest supporters for President, Connecticut's popular, soulfully handsome Ribicoff was considered a top candidate for U.S. Attorney General. Ribicoff turned down that job with the characteristic comment that he was out of practice as a lawyer-and besides, it would be politically hard on the new Administration for a Catholic and a Jew to lead any fight for integration...
...spirit. It held its first major convention just 100 years ago, when its streets were still being laid out. The convention hall was a hastily built two-story frame building, the famed Wigwam, where delegates to the Republican National Convention, after brawling with each other in the streets, nominated Abe Lincoln for the presidency...
Attorney General: Connecticut's Governor Abe Ribicoff (en route to the Supreme Court, which he is said to long for); Whizzer White...
Roman Gods & Abe Lincoln. Originally, the city fathers had no grand design in mind.One of their first purchases was made in the early 1800s to decorate the city waterworks, and it consisted of wooden figures by William Rush, the famous carver of ships' figureheads. From Sculptor Randolph Rogers in 1871 came a statue of Lincoln. In 1887 Alexander Milne Calder, grandfather of the mobilist, did an equestrian bronze of Philadelphia's Civil War hero, General George Meade. Frederic Remington produced a Cowboy; Daniel C. French did an idealized female Justice; Augustus Saint-Gaudens carved a bust of President...
...reply to the comment [casting aspersion on the Philadelphia water supply]: I'm no bureaucrat; The Best Man is an excellent play; Playwright Gore Vidal still should delete the line slurring our drinking water. ABE S. ROSEN Deputy City Representative Philadelphia...