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Made-Up Mind? The President and party leaders considered two dozen possibles ranging from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton to Ohio's Chairman Ray Bliss to fireballing Chicago Camera Maker Charles H. Percy. Ultimate choice: Thruston (rhymes with boostin') Ballard Morton, 51, elected Kentucky's junior Senator in 1956. Husky (6 ft. 2 in., 185 lbs.) Thruston Morton, seventh-generation Kentuckian, is no politician-come-lately. He served three House terms (entered as a freshman with Congressman Richard Nixon). In 1952 he was the lone Eisenhower supporter in Kentucky's 20-man Taft-minded convention delegation. Later...
...returned from Mexico with hundreds of figurines, the collectors' interest was piqued. One of the earliest finds was the famed stone statue of Goddess Tlazolteotl in the act of childbirth (see cut). A French collector first bought it for a few francs. Current owner: U.S. Collector Robert Woods Bliss, who has it insured...
...professorship in this area does exist now," Gilmore pointed out, adding that the Bliss Chair in Latin American History, established in 1913, has not been filled for several years. The chair was endowed so long ago that it does not provide a large enough salary for a professor today, Gilmore explained...
Funds collected by the alumni group will be added to the left-over endowment from the Bliss Chair. No one has been selected yet to fill the professorship...
...city that has long been known as a cultural backwater, the company was financed by contributions averaging $100, plus some sizable gifts from Washington society's "cave dwellers," including Mrs. Herbert May (formerly Mrs. Merriweather Post), Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss...