Word: arthur
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Bowing to opposition from neighborhood residents, Harvard officials have decided to abandon plans to build an overhead bridge connecting the Fogg Art Museum to its recently constructed extension, the Arthur M Sackler Musuem...
...ticket in one way: he delivered his home state of Maine to the Democrats for only the third time in this century. Traditionally, the ability to serve up his own state has been the minimal campaign boost expected of a running mate, and sometimes the only one: when Chester Arthur ran for Veep in 1880 on a ticket headed by James Garfield, he did not venture out of New York for the entire campaign-and carried it. In 1960, Pollster Louis Harris found that Lyndon Johnson added a crucial 4 percentage points to John Kennedy's standing in Texas...
...much from the funds appeared; White House aides reportedly quarreled among themselves about how much to disclose and when Jacob Stein, the special prosecutor who is looking into the financial affairs of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, asked for a copy of an audit by the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., and the funds' lawyers finally released it last week. It pointed to no apparent illegalities. The audit, however, did present some intriguing bits of information that might inspire some new questions at any further Senate hearings on the nomination of Meese for Attorney General...
...whisked to his suite by a secret elevator. The books abound in learned footnotes and pleasant trivia (the pianist at the Waldorf's Peacock Alley uses an instrument once owned by Cole Porter, who lived in the hotel). New York restaurant critiques, by Daily News Food Editor Arthur Schwartz, are deft and sometimes devastating. At the toplofty "21" Club, the guide observes, "it is surprising how democratic the cooks and waiters are: no one gets terrific food or service...
...DIED. Arthur H. ("Red") Motley, 83, publisher-president responsible for making Parade magazine the largest and most profitable of the national Sunday supplements; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. A garrulous onetime salesman of zithers and Fuller brushes, he became boss of the five-year-old, money-losing supplement in 1946. By pitching it to newspaper markets in the burgeoning suburbs, he increased its circulation from 2 million to 19 million, under various owners, until his retirement...