Word: buren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours, Popo Phillips was back with her own replies to more than 70 lonelyheart letters. Their crisply confident style so impressed the editors that she returned the same afternoon to sign a contract to write six columns a week for the Chronicle under the pen name Abigail Van Buren. also landed a ten-year contract with the McNaught Syndicate. As she was leaving the Chronicle, Editor Arnold remarked to Popo Phillips that her witty, worldy replies to the letters reminded him of Ann (Your Problems) Landers, heartthrob star of the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate. "They ought to," rejoined Popo...
From Martin Van Buren to Pat McCarran, for better or worse, the chairmanship of the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee has been a wellspring of power. The committee handles up to half the legislation submitted to the Senate, passes on all nominations to the federal courts (including the Supreme Court) and on all Justice Department positions requiring Senate confirmation. It has jurisdiction over all legislation on immigration and citizenship. It studies all amendments proposed to the U.S. Constitution. It handles civil rights matters. Last week, after the death of Chairman Harley Kilgore, the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee went...
Brother Matthew, Brother Bartholomew and Brother Stanislaus take their vows this week at the Servite Monastery on Van Buren Street in Chicago. Brother Stanislaus came from the Polish army and five years in a German prison camp. Brother Bartholomew came from the retail clothing trade in Chicago, where he was known to fellow salesmen as "Two-Pants Murphy." And Brother Matthew came from the honky-tonk world of red-hot, blue-air, 4-in-the-morning jazz; his name was Boyce Brown...
...precedents are against Nixon's chances to move into the White House in 1957. Only three men have moved up directly from the vice-presidency to the White House by election: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren The last of those moves was made 120 years before Nixon would be trying to make his But such precedents are not the kind to dismay Richard Nixon. He has risen fast and far in politics, to his present high role as acting captain of the Eisenhower team. He aims eventually to be captain of the team...
Family & Early Life. During the Civil War, his Confederate grandfather died in a Union prison camp, and Union troops devastated the family plantation in Lafayette County, Miss. Quarles's father, a dentist, moved to Van Buren, Ark. As a boy, Quarles roamed the Ozarks, fished in mountain streams, applied an old country remedy when a playmate was bitten by a snake (the remedy: a raw-chicken poultice). He sang in his high-school glee club with bazooka-playing Arkansas Traveler Bob Burns, graduated at 15, then taught school for $50 a month. In 1912-16 he worked...