Word: alf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning Times and evening Star (combined circ. 725,000) would continue to blanket Kansas and western Missouri, as the biggest paper in both states. "The boss of the Star," a businessman-politician reflected last week, "is the most important man in Kansas at any given moment-more important than Alf Landon, Arthur Capper, Clyde Reed, all the congressmen and the Governor all wrapped up together. The State of Kansas is exactly what the Star wants it to be; it won't change until the Star decides it's time." The Star lived in the same city...
...Republican presidential candidate Alf Landon dropped into the White'House for a chat, came out beaming and declaring that Harry looked fine. The Duke of Windsor stopped in for a chat. He thought the President looked "in great shape." Ex-Kansas Governor, ex-War Secretary Harry Woodring, a deep-dyed Democrat, was so moved by the President's new vigor that he prophesied his re-election in 1948, along with a Democratic Congress...
...went home to Topeka, lived quietly, invested in a soft-drink company, got a jeep agency. He tatted expertly, joyfully did the housework during the maid shortage, attended antique auctions, where he bid fiercely in competition with society matrons. One night a week he played bridge with Alf Landon and two other Republicans. This summer's polio epidemic dealt him a cruel blow-two of his three children contracted the disease; son Marcus, 12, died, daughter Melissa, 11, recovered...
...class of 1942: Ray P. Baker, Jr. '39, Occar M. Bate, Jr., James M. DeLoreto, James C. Evans, Robert S. Hellendale, Norman E. Henkin, John H. Miller, 2nd, Herbert F. Schmelzer '39, Alf R. Stavig, and Thomas P. Webster...
Alfred M. Landon, 58, an old hand at coming a cropper, nursed a broken toe after too much horsing around for one day. Alf was out for a canter along the railroad tracks north of Topeka when a train came around the bend. The rider reined in, and his horse started up an embankment, then fell back on the Landon toe. The train roared...