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DIED Guitarist and founding member of the seminal punk outfit the Stooges, Ron Asheton, 60, would often make waffles for his bandmates--including singer Iggy Pop--at the Fun House, the Ann Arbor, Mich., home where the group lived for a time...
Delaware. Democrats at Dover by a vote of 115 to 95 nominated Thomas < Francis Bayard, Wet, for the Senate over Josiah Marvel, new president of the American Bar Association (TIME, Sept.1). Nominee Bayard's father, Thomas Francis Bayard Sr., his grandfather James Asheton Bayard Jr. and his greatgrand-father James Asheton Bayard Sr. all at different times represented Delaware in the Senate. So did Nominee Bayard (1923-29). His Republican opponent: Dry Senator Daniel O. Hastings. Delaware's single Democratic Congressional nominee: John P. Le Fevre...
...their graves, four onetime Bayard Senators must have chuckled proudly, said: "Nice work, Tom-you have that old Bayard fight in you." The four† dead had once been fighters: 1) James Asheton Bayard, Senator (1805-13), battled for the election of Thomas Jefferson against Aaron Burr. 2) Richard Henry Bayard was first mayor of Wilmington, Del., Senator (1836-45), Chief Justice of Delaware Supreme Court...
...James Asheton Bayard II, Senator (1851-64), resigned his office on being required to take an "iron clad oath" of allegiance to the Government. He was later reappointed to the Senate and served until...
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