Word: buren
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Name and College, PositionPts. 1. John Witkowski, Columbia, CB 25 2. Don Allard, Harvard, CB 23 3. Mike Christiani, Penn, LB 9 4. Dave Neelund, Dartmouth, LB 6 5. Brent Woods, Princeton, OB 4 6. Dan Buren, Cornell, TE 3 7. Paul Andrie, Yale, TB 2 *Points based on 5 for first-place votes, for seconds and 1 for thirds...
...Best of Dear Abby, Van Buren...
...hilariously over centuries' worth of British biography and gossip. Historian Paul F. Boiler Jr. had to confine himself to the 39 Americans who, for better or worse, served among the acknowledged legislators of the world. Abraham Lincoln is here, but so, unavoidably, are James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren and Millard Fillmore...
...disagree with Reader Franklin Courtney Ellis' letter regarding the origin of the affirmative expression O.K. [Jan. 19]. He says it stems from the first letters of "Old Kinderhook," the nickname that, according to Mr. Ellis, was given to President Martin Van Buren...
That mail has not slowed over a quarter-century. Today, Van Buren, who started her newspaper career tapping out pithy answers on a portable typewriter balanced on a card table in her San Francisco den, needs four full-time mail openers, six matronly letter answerers and a research assistant to help with the 25,000 letters that pour into her Beverly Hills office every week. The top topics, to nobody's surprise: sex, loneliness and frustration. Sometimes the mail flow becomes an avalanche: a record 227,000 readers responded when Abby asked in her column last summer whether women...