Word: abigail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than two hours, Popo Phillips was back with her own replies to more than 70 lonelyheart letters. Their crisply confident style so impressed the editors that she returned the same afternoon to sign a contract to write six columns a week for the Chronicle under the pen name Abigail Van Buren. also landed a ten-year contract with the McNaught Syndicate. As she was leaving the Chronicle, Editor Arnold remarked to Popo Phillips that her witty, worldy replies to the letters reminded him of Ann (Your Problems) Landers, heartthrob star of the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate. "They ought...
...JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS did not just hope that their son would become President of the U.S. They raised him for the position. Watching the Battle of Bunker Hill from a distance as little John Quincy Adams held her hand, his mother could not have known that both her husband and her son would hold the highest office. But three years later, in 1778, Abigail told eleven-year-old Johnny that his embattled country might one day ask him for leadership...
...John Quincy Adams and the Union (Knopf; $8.75). the second volume of his big and authoritative biography of the sixth President, Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis shows how bitter the big prize was when in 1824 it came to the son of John and Abigail at the age of 57. Running against General Andy Jackson, high-principled John Adams refused to campaign. If his countrymen wanted him, they must say so without any courting from him. Jackson beat him, but the electoral vote was close enough to throw the election into the House of Representatives. There, with an assist from Kentucky...
...because he thought it an unjust one. He still thought so, and his vote now was a ringing no. It was his last word on the floor of Congress. A few minutes later he collapsed. He died next day, but he spoke like a son of John and Abigail Adams to the last: "This is the end of earth, but I am composed...
...boldest touch is the interpretation of Alcestis. Usually seen as a paragon of unselfishness, as played by Abigail Lewis she seems to take inhuman pleasure in her martyrdom. The loss of a foil for the other monsters is difficult to overcome--in this production impossible...