Word: buren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Also, they are wise and steady friends. To 130 million readers from Tokyo to Tucson, they are the witty and no-nonsense "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers." In real life, they are twin sisters, Esther Pauline ("Eppie") Lederer (alias Ann Landers) and Pauline Esther ("Popo") Phillips (Abigail Van Buren), together the most widely syndicated columnists in the world, with upwards of 1,000 newspapers apiece. Says Loyola (Chicago) University Psychologist Eugene Kennedy: "Their columns are the national mailbag. The advice they give is fundamental common sense, and no one has ever improved on that...
...usual, Sister Ann beat her to the punch, marking her own silver anniversary last October in Chicago. It was only the latest chapter in the rivalry -sometimes bitter-that started 62 years ago on the Fourth of July, when Landers contrived to be born 17 minutes before Van Buren. Growing up, the 5-ft. 2-in., blue-eyed, identical twins were virtually inseparable; they dressed alike, took the same high school classes, double-dated and even had a double wedding...
...months later, Pauline launched her own column in the San Francisco Chronicle, her nom de plume taken from Abigail in the Book of Samuel ("And blessed be thy advice") and President Martin Van Buren. Landers was miffed, to say the least. The sisters hardly spoke for several years. Coos Abby now: "We're so close." Admits a candid Landers: "If anyone had written to me with the problem, I would have said 'Forgive and forget.' " Despite the rift, both columnists flourished, piling up readers on five continents, giving opinions on everything from Thai singles bars...
...Country, but also as the Stepfather of His Country and the Father of Pittsburgh. At least four U.S. Presidents were known as "His Accidency" (Tyler, Fillmore, Arthur and Andrew Johnson). That name, while suggestive, is still a cut above "His Fraudulency" (Rutherford B. Hayes). Mar tin Van Buren was alternately called "Whiskey Van," because he could hold his liquor, and "The American Talleyrand" (though Talleyrand was never known as the French Van Buren). We will not discuss Wobbly Willie McKinley or Old Rough and Ready...
...stage (as in the first act), the effective momentum of the personalities, which the solos articulated in the beginning of the second act, never lets up, and the tightness of the audience-cast bond grows stronger. Eventually, the church on stage engulfs the entire theater. Preacher Gregory Van Buren and Alison Taylor bop and shout with a spasmodic liveliness that transforms the theater into a hand-clapping, toe-tapping revival meeting...