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...Besides Dad: George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, William Henry Harrison, Ulysses Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft...
...open a nightclub in Paris could do better than the former mortuary chapel of the century-old Protestant American Church, a brick-vaulted cellar with a long flight of stairs leading up to street level. And a nightclub is just what the chapel is, under the Rev. Martin van Buren Sargent, 45, minister of the American Church for the past two years. But Sargent is more than an avant-garde impresario of coffeehouse Christianity. In the main church, he delivers serious, Bible-based sermons to Sunday throngs, worries deeply about the moral problems facing young Americans in Paris...
...Tyler was the Whig vice-presidential candidate in 1840. "Tippecanoe" was used to glamorize Gentleman Farmer William Henry Harrison, who had scored a dubious victory over the Indians in a skirmish at Tippecanoe Creek 29 years earlier, but routed Martin Van Buren in the election. A more forgettable Whig slogan affirmed: "With Tip and Tyler we'll bust Van's biler...
...dailies, went on to establish such other favorites as Dale Carnegie and Joe Palooka; of cancer; in Southbridge, Mass. Still going strong in 1,000 newspapers under McAdam, 72, the syndicate now features, besides tireless Joe, the Flintstones, Dixie Dugan, Mickey Finn, and Abigail ("Dear Abby") Van Buren...
...Civil War battlescape, Cannonading on the Potomac. The Green Room's watered-silk walls support a gallery of 15 oils, including David Martin's reposed Ben Franklin watched over by a bust of Isaac Newton, and Henry Inman's winsome 1842 portrait of Angelica Van Buren, President Van Buren's daughter-in-law, with a view of Hiram Powers' bust of the President himself in the background...