Word: alton
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...items in the collection are two large buttons for the McKinley inauguration in 1900 and for his first nomination in 1896. Among Sugar's more than 3,000 buttons are ones for William Jennings Bryan, Samuel Tilden, Rutherford B. Hayes, Wendell Wilkie, Alfred Landon, Alfred Smith, Herbert Hoover and Alton B. Parker...
Died. Francis Albert ("Bee") Behymer, 86, veteran (since 1888) reporter and feature writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch whose "cornfield journalism" has been a Midwest institution for 68 years; in Alton, Ill. A little (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) wiry man with unruly grey hair, "Mr. Bee" went to the P-D ten years after its founding (1878) by the first Joseph Pulitzer, became a standard prop at back-country murder trials and hillbilly feuds, stamped his copy with his own brand of homespun humor. ("Methuselah lived 969 years and all they said about him was that...
...down his attacker. The reward for his assailant mounted to $45,000, but there were still no results to set against the grim medical bulletin. The bylined Riesel column, which has kept on running in 192 papers, will continue to be written by Riesel's right-hand man, Alton Levy, and his secretary, Miriam Goldfine. But Riesel himself will go on directing their work...
...Like Eureka, 129-year-old Shurtleff College in Alton, Ill. lost its accreditation m 1936. This, says President Roland E. Turnbull, "is something like not having a union label on your product, or the approval seal of the fire underwriters." A Shurtleff coed cannot join a national sorority or be a member of the American Association of University Women. Even worse, the college has already had to resign from the fund-raising Associated Colleges of Illinois. Yet Baptist Shurtleff has managed to make considerable contribution over the years. Among its alumni four college presidents, 112 college and university teachers...
Last-week, at a mere 59 (Rudolph Matas is still alive at 95 and working on medical histories), Alton Ochsner gave up the reins as head of Tulane's department of surgery, though he will continue as a professor and can still be the bull in the bullpen. So far, no surgeon has been named. In a reminiscent mood, Ochsner recalled some of the Latin American dictators (including Argentina's fallen idol Juan Perón) on whom he has operated or for whom he has served as consultant...