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...were to be come the most powerful of Senate Democrats entered the hallowed cham ber. They were Lyndon Johnson of Texas and Robert Kerr of Oklahoma. Bobby Baker spotted them as real comers-and he made certain that they saw him the same way. The relationship with Kerr was cemented first; before very long Kerr was tipping Baker to profitable stock investments, something that the tough, rough oil millionaire did for few others. Next, Baker ingratiated himself with Johnson. Recalls a former Johnson staffer of Baker: "He was an unabashed lackey, a bootlicker. He'd think of all manner...
...Harvard stole the Irish ditty Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms. Before World War I, Yale lifted Germany's patriotic Die Wacht am Rhein for its own Bright College Years. Harvard mined the Marseillaise for On to Victory, and Columbia hitched Stand Columbia to Deutschland über Alles...
...death of the Chief in 1951 spelled the Mirror's ultimate doom. Control of Hearst's empire passed to unsentimental custodians. Tallest of these was Richard E. Berlin, president (since 1940) of the Hearst Corp. and onetime Hearst ad salesman. In 1956 Ber lin began hacking away at the Hearst chain with both hands. By sale or merger he dropped money-losing papers in Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles and Milwaukee; he also sold Hearst's International News Service to United Press. Earlier this year, he put to death Hearst's unprofitable Sunday...
...neck on the left side and once in his left shoulder and again grazing him across the chest. After that, Ware doesn't remem- took it, saying "This won't do." When the car pulled to a stop, the Sheriff took a long knife of about seven inches ber gaining consciousness for at least...
...climate of opinion in which serious talk about Christian unity becomes possible. The fourth conference, carrying on the dialogue of the third one, at Lund in 1952, proved more ecumenical, and less Protestant-dominated, than ever. Among representatives of 138 of the World Council's 201 mem ber churches was the first full dele gation of Orthodox theologians: there were 51 of them, including eight from Russia. Also present were 20 Roman Catholic observers-including five appointed by the Vatican-and Montreal's Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger delivered one of the major addresses...