Word: alf
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Publisher Stauffer was born in Hope, Kans., where his father had taken over a general store from the father of President Eisenhower before the Eisenhowers moved to Denison, Texas, where Ike was born.† At the University of Kansas one of Stauffer's closest friends was Classmate Alf M. Landon, and Stauffer headed a Landon-for-President committee...
...said one of them last week, after a nasty fight with a policeman, "you shoulda seen that copper! One eye 'angin' out and 'is nose all over the side of 'is face, 'e wasn't 'alf slammed. Coo, they really 'ung one on 'im. And the funny thing-we 'ad to laugh-'e said 'e was gettin' married next week...
Tying flies for a Colorado fishing expedition, Topeka Oilman Alf M. London, 68, disclosed that he will be "far from the madding crowd" when the Republicans convene late this month. Furthermore, the 1936 G.O.P. standard-bearer will not even follow the convention antics of his fellow Republicans on TV: "It's going to be too cut and dried...
Political Career: At 18, in 1928, headed the Kansas State College Republican organization for Herbert Hoover, rose through the Young Republican organization to become state chairman, later campaign secretary for Kansas' Republican Presidential Nominee Alf Landon. Moved from Kansas to Nebraska in 1937 to take over the Hastings Tribune (and subsequently to control, with his brother Richard, seven other dailies and two weeklies in Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota and Wyoming and the semimonthly Western Farm Life magazine in Denver, plus three radio stations in Nebraska and Kansas). Elected to Nebraska's Unicameral Legislature for two terms...
Perles was working for the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune when the conjunction took place. With all the avuncular patronage of Dr. Johnson being kind for once to Boswell, Miller says kind things of the first meeting with "my good friend Alf." But like Boswell's initial confrontation with Johnson, it was not a success. "There was no click," Perles confesses sadly. Yet, "was I already under the spell of that personality which was later to manifest itself in his epoch-making books?" Two years later the question was answered. He was-even though Miller "talked through...