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...local stationer offers soft-center candies FROM THE TOWN OF THE VET). Fans have sometimes tracked him to the unpretentious fieldstone home he shares with his wife of 40 years. Joan Wight- Helen in the books- is a handsome, white-haired woman who does not suffer tourists lightly: "Alf is too kind. I send them packing." And there have been lampoons of the now familiar Herriot style. Monty Python kidded the title verse: "All things gross and angrenous. All creatures gross and squat." Nature Writer Edward Hoagland parodied the books in the New York Times: " 'It's time...
Taken together, the three birthday celebrators have more summers behind them than does the nation itself. Former Kansas Governor Alf Landon, 93, the eldest of the trio, was given a regular River City-style salute by the trombones of the Landon Middle School band in Topeka. The Governor still maintains a high degree of horse sense with daily rides on Red, his 27-year-old Morgan. "I'm in good shape," reports Landon, who carried the G.O.P. banner during the ill-fated campaign against F.D.R. in 1936, "though I can't get in and out of the saddle...
...party bosses who gave it to Adlai Stevenson instead. Under the new rules drafted after 1968, the results of the primaries became binding on convention delegates. "Direct democracy" had triumphed. The convention, rather than choosing a President, simply celebrated the result. Says Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum, whose father Alf Landon was nominated at a "real" convention in 1936: "I miss the rough-and-tumble. This is all a little sanitized...
...Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum, daughter of 1936 Presidential Candidate Alf Landon, who reported that her broadcasting properties are worth between $2.1 million and $4.2 million...
...because we know that he was part of us and he was taking on the attack meant for us all. Today we feel sadness in our hearts because part of us has passed away. Shop Stewards Committee for members of Local-'6 Harvard Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union ALF...