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Died. E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, 64, senior Senator from Alaska and tireless campaigner in the struggle for statehood; of complications following heart surgery; in Cleveland. The roughhewn son of a Klondike sourdough, Bartlett may well have been the prototype of Edna Ferber's central character in Ice Palace. He grew up in gold-crazed Fairbanks, went to Washington in 1932 to serve as secretary to the territorial Delegate. In 1944 he was elected a Delegate to Congress, where for 14 years he led the fight for Alaskan statehood-after which a grateful electorate awarded him a senatorial seat...
Burke Dial, the most experienced foilist, has been unable to compete thus far, but Eliot Horowitz and Thad Bartlett have both shown potential in foil...
Papers. This was old P. Bender Bartlett's specialty, and the Bartiett Boom remains standard. Although many variations are permitted, it was the master's own strategy to assign one two-page and one thirty-page paper each term. He criticized the two-pager in great detail, and marked it stiffly; thus students were driven to invest a good deal of time into the thirty-pager--only to get it back ungraded, with the comment, "I don't think one can measure an effort of this sort by a number or letter...
When statehood finally came, he and longtime Congressional Delegate E. L. Bartlett were elected as the state's first U.S. Senators, Gruening becoming the junior by a flip of the coin...
...Marine veteran of Iwo Jima who does not drink, smoke or swear, he delighted the backwoods by scorning a "monkey suit" at his inauguration. As Oklahoma's first G.O.P. Governor, Bellmon proved so popular that in 1966 he was able to pull in a Republican successor, Governor Dewey Bartlett, a Princeton-educated, Roman Catholic Tulsan in a traditionally rural-oriented, Protestant state. Democratic hegemony has been shattered, and now Bellmon is after Monroney's Senate seat...