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...moved to second place, and Washington fell to third. Also rated as great: Jefferson, who supplanted Wilson in the top four. Rated as near great: Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, Jackson, Truman. Above average: John Adams, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Polk, Kennedy, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Cleveland. Average: McKinley, Taft, Van Buren, Hoover, Hayes, Arthur, Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Trying to Measure Greatness | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1982 Asa S. Bushnell Cup Voting | 12/3/1982 | See Source »

...Best of Dear Abby, Van Buren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Nov. 16, 1981 | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who's Fillmore? What's He Done? | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1981 | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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