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During the 13 hours of the festival, Robert Jeffrey's lithe young dancers performed on the premises, and Mr. Edward K. Ellington (as Duke's invitation read) led his 15-piece band. Catherine Drinker Bowen read a passage from Yankee from Olympus, her memorable biography of Mr. Justice Holmes. It had to do with the thrills felt by Holmes's wife Fanny upon her arrival in Washington and her first dinner at the White House, where she was enthusiastically greeted by President Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Bowen had had some qualms about picking that particular passage: it might...
Troublesome Poets. With the help of Mrs. Bowen and many others, the festival was a smashing success-up to a point. Trouble was, throughout the day the artists kept getting themselves sidetracked from art and into the issue of U.S. foreign policy, particularly as it pertains to Viet...
Died. Balfour Bowen Thorn Lord, 58, Democratic Party chief in New Jersey since 1961 and chairman for 17 years of powerful Mercer County (which includes Trenton), a skillful organizer who in 1954 was widely credited with electing Governor Robert B. Meyner after ten years of Republican rule, but proved less successful himself in 1960 when he ran for the U.S. Senate against Clifford Case, losing by 335,861 votes (while President Kennedy won the state by 22,091), after which he helped his former law partner Richard Hughes win the governorship in 1962; by his own hand (depressed...
Inter-racial marriages are illegal in Georgia, and Perdew's marriage to Amanda Bowen, of Americus, though performed in his home state in Colorado, has evoked a stream of hostile publicity in the South...
Another Oxford? Bowen has brought the same vitality to Iowa since his appointment last spring. Already in progress is $60 million worth of new construction, including a fine arts center designed by Harrison & Abramovitz. Planning for a big state university was surprisingly similar to the needs of Grinnell, Bowen discovered. "I just had to add another digit...