Word: anderson
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Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Marian Anderson...
With the season exactly one third over, the regular first line of Captain Dave Key, Carman, and Bill Garrity leads ni total scoring, with 32 points on 16 goals and 16 assists. In the light-blinking department, Doug Anderson is high man with eight goals. He has also registered two assists. Best playmaker so far has been the former Exeter center, Miles Huntington, who has been operating on the same line with Dave Abbot for the past five years, here and previously at Exeter. He has set up eight goals this winter, while scoring five himself...
...Tall Man. To find his man, Professor Anderson worked by a patient process of elimination. The late Allen Johnson, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, had decided on internal evidence that the diarist must have been 1) a New Englander, 2) a former Whig, 3) a Republican in 1860-61, 4) a Senator. Anderson eventually decided that Johnson might be wrong on any or all counts...
...Night of Feb. 19. His first serious suspect was Henry Sanford, for whom Sanford, Fla. was named. Sanford was a wealthy diplomat who made a practice of holding small dinners for important political figures in Washington. When Professor Anderson found the Sanford papers in the Connecticut Historical Society, he thought that his search was over; then he found letters proving that Sanford had been in Washington...
...Anderson also followed Amos Kendall, Andrew Jackson's ghostwriter and Postmaster General. Kendall usually stayed at the Astor House when he was in New York, a clue which sent Anderson on a futile search for the hotel register. He did learn, however, that in 1861 all hotel guests were reported in the Daily Transcript. The Yale library had a file-but the Feb. 19 issue was missing. In the New York Historical Society, Professor Anderson found the missing issue, which listed a J. Kendall among the Astor House guests. He thought J. Kendall might be a misprint...