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Senator George McGovern is again fanning his fragile presidential hopes. He has opened an office in Washington and is sounding out sentiment in key states. Senators Birch Bayh, Walter F. Mondale and Harold Hughes occupy the dark-horse stable; former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and New York Mayor John Lindsay, a tenuous Republican, may rent stalls in it. Though a great deal can happen before 1972, they will find Ed Muskie a considerable way around the track...
Like Lane, English-born Thomas Birch also delighted in painting harbors and coasts. Brought to America in 1794 when he was only fifteen, Birch settled in Philadelphia and immediately went to work with his father, an accomplished engraver and painter of enamels. Although he was never a sailor. Birch had a profound feeling for the structure and beauty of ships. In a View of the Harbor of Philadelphia from the Delaware River, Birch shows that he understood even better the element they travel in. Although his seascapes varied -some being stormy and violent-this harbor view is marked...
...gentleman is recalled by a classmate to have been a Jew who dressed up in preppy clothes and "snuck" into a Final Club, from which exalted position he was constantly threatened with exposure by old high school friends. Now he reports he's a member of the John Birch Society and believes in Karma and reincarnation. Another hopes to send his sons to Harvard and therefore calls himself an optimist, except for his belief that overpopulation will destroy the world before the year 2000. One appears to have achieved reincarnation in this life, being cross-referenced as both Joseph...
...group of liberal Washington legislators and the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins held an informal field investigation of their own. When it was over, Indiana Senator Birch Bayh protested that "What we have seen is enough to make a grown man cry." A planeload of 87 other Washington visitors, led by Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie and including Republican Senator Charles Percy and Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, flew in for the funeral of one of the shooting victims, James Earl Green, 17. They heard Fayette Mayor Charles Evers deliver a eulogy in the same hall in which services had been...
Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, leader of the successful opposition to both Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, implicitly contrasted Blackmun to Carswell, who was criticized for insensitivity toward racial issues. Though Blackmun has been labeled a conservative, the lib eral Bayh said: "There is every indication that Judge Blackmun is aware of the crucial questions of civil rights and human rights facing our nation - and is equipped to deal with them with sensitivity, understanding and intelligence...