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...written by the retired second President of the United States. Adams was alone among the founders of the republic in making full notes, in "flat-like phrases," of the day's events as they happened. The first volumes also include several short unpublished journals kept by John's wife, Abigail Adams...
...gorge of Al Ricketts' readers is forever rising. Of the Pacific Stars and Stripes columnists, who include Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Red Smith and Lovelornist Abigail Van Buren, the most widely read by far is Ricketts, a Buddha-shaped (5 ft. 4 in., 175 Ibs.) 32-year-old who chomps a long black cigar with a ferocity suggestive of filmdom's bad guy, Edward G. Robinson (see cut). The Ricketts wit is the sort that leads to lynching. As entertainment editor of the Pacific Stars and Stripes, the U.S. armed forces newspaper in the Far East with...
...city agony columnists like Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren might turn up their powdered noses at such rural dilemmas. But Janice Tate, 37, the go-getting wife of a Corsicana, Texas insurance agent, is making a name for herself with her home-style answers to the problems that perplex the folks down on the farm. Though she had no journalistic experience, blue-eyed Jan Tate decided last summer that she could fill a Lone Star need by advising Texas small-towners on their big-sounding Texas problems. Packing her three "kiddos" and a picnic lunch...
Lady, set no precedents, bided her time in semi-seclusion in New York and Philadelphia (Washington was not yet the capital) complaining about the drafts and writing letters. Not until she became the second First Lady did Abigail reach Washington and the unfinished White House. It was, she reported, intolerably drafty...
...many respects, ABIGAIL FILLMORE most resembled Pat Nixon. A Baptist preacher's daughter, she was supporting herself at 16 as a schoolteacher, married one of her pupils, a hulking country lad named Millard Fillmore. Abigail continued to teach, vigorously promoted her husband's political career. As the wife of a young Congressman, she was invited to make a public speech-a daring innovation in 1840. Like Pat Nixon, she declined...