Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andrew Jackson's pre-presidential fame was almost entirely as a general. So was William Henry ("Old Tippecanoe") Harrison's. Zachary Taylor was a professional soldier who had never voted. Franklin Pierce, who beat Winfield Scott, was a citizen-soldier like Harry Truman, but his war record was not nearly so good as Truman's. He enlisted as a private in the Mexican War, and President Polk, an old friend, promptly promoted him to brigadier-general. Pierce fell off his horse, sprained his knee and fainted at the battle of Contreras, fainted again the next...
...whole thing is settled during a summer when the Shipleys are in Europe and Katharine has the children at her house in Maine. In prose that is gracious, sensuous and only occasionally selfconscious, Author Stafford deals with Katharine's emotional wrestle, the special despair of young Andrew Shipley, life in the big house, the crotchety local characters. But when Katharine is burned to death in a fireworks display, the tragedy is merely shocking, not moving. The Catherine Wheel is an exercise in literary grace, so delicate that the characters and problems it creates go up with the final fireworks...
...John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson...
Specialists. In Swanwick, England, nine bell ringers of St. Andrew's Church went on strike when the Rev. L. H. Roper told them they would have to attend services...
...David K. Este Bruce, 53, now U.S. Ambassador to France, a rich man who has been in & out of government and politics all his life. The son of a U.S. Senator from Maryland, he went to Princeton, then law school, married the only daughter of Andrew Mellon (he is now divorced and remarried). He served a couple of terms in the Maryland and Virginia legislatures, devoted himself to managing the Mellon interests for twelve years. An old friend of W. Averell Harriman, he became Harriman's deputy as roving ECA ambassador to Europe, and later chief...