Word: blair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seated Lincoln figure be left on. As a Secret Serviceman beamed a flashlight, Johnson escorted the Yameogos up the stairs and into the memorial. There they paused, as Yameogo caught his first glimpse of the massive, brooding figure. "Formidable! Formidable!," he whispered in French. On the trip back to Blair House, Yameogo and Johnson quoted to each other passages from Lincoln's Gettysburg and second inaugural addresses. Last week the President also...
...onetime Holy Cross star ("I used to feed Bob Cousy"), he long ago gave up hope of competing for big-name high school players: "We hope to find diamonds in the rough," he says. One day he was chatting amiably with the mother of a freshman named Billy Blair, when Mrs. Blair blurted out: "Billy's a fine player, but have you ever heard of Jim Walker?" Then, in Laurinburg, N.C., a prep school principal assured Mullaney: "Walker is a fine boy. Since he and Dexter Westbrook arrived, our team has had a 49-1 record...
...sophomores in college ball. Walker, a 6-ft. 3-in. guard, is the team's top scorer at 20.7 points a game; Westbrook, a 6-ft. 7-in. center, averages eleven rebounds per game, is the key man in the Friars' pro-type pivot offense. And Junior Blair, whose mother started the whole thing, is no less a whiz: he is averaging 14.2 points a game, and against Iowa (which later knocked off national champion U.C.L.A.) he calmly tossed in two free throws with 17 sec. left to give Providence a 71-70 victory...
...their names in the papers," Mullaney says, and he is so exhausted by tension that he has trouble staying awake. His boys do not seem to be worried at all. In the locker room before a game, they lounge around listening to rock 'n' roll on Billy Blair's tape recorder. Finally Mullaney stands up, snaps off the recorder. "Let's go," he says. "We've got some work...
Shuffled Beds. With all these people staying at the White House and across the street at Blair House (where Margaret Truman Daniel and her husband were putting up), a lot of beds and rooms needed reshuffling. Luci gave up her bedroom for a dressing-room cot to make space for several good Texas friends; Lynda Bird shared her yellow boudoir with a girl friend, and Governor John Connally got to sleep in Lincoln...