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...George Washington's portraits show that he was bald in front; James Madison, Martin Van Buren and the two Adamses lived in tense times, had bald pates to show for it; the Civil War, however, left Abraham Lincoln's splendid thatch unthinned...
Forecast. In St. Louis, Space Cadet Harold Buren, 9, projecting a trip to the moon in 1970, asked the local weather bureau for a prediction, was informed: "No rain, no hail, no sleet. High daytime temperature, 250°; low nighttime temperature...
...Franklin Roosevelt, an indifferent student at Harvard, was made an honorary member of PBK in 1929. Other honorary PBKs: Presidents Pierce, Hayes, Garfield, Wilson, Coolidge (who also got their keys as graduates); Presidents Van Buren and Cleveland (who never went to college) and President Truman (who had two years at Kansas City Law School...
...last day, Staff Sergeant Glenn W. Van Buren of Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base was tied with four others after a perfect 200-for-200 score in the All Gauge division. He had lost out last year because he missed one bird. But this year he never wavered. When the din and the powder smell had faded away, he had raised his score to 250 out of 250 in the shootoff, to become the first three-time champion (1948, 1949) in National Skeet history...
...notoriously bad speller who was supposed to mark official documents O.K. for oll korrect. Woodrow Wilson used okeh on the theory that the word came from the Choctaw hoke, meaning "Yes, it is." Mathews' preference: that it sprang up first during the presidential campaign of 1840, when Van Buren's supporters organized a mysterious O.K. Club. The initials were those of Van Buren's home town: Old Kinderhook...