Word: burens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story appeared-which happened to be a Friday-the Westchester Business Journal conducted a similar survey. It phoned the top six executives at the Wall Street Journal to see if they took their own paper's advice. Executive Vice President Buren H. McCormack answered the phone. The result of five other calls, made a few minutes after 4 p.m.: "William F. Kerby, president, was 'gone for the day' an assistant said. Robert Bottorff, vice president, was 'on vacation.' Vermont Royster, the editor, was 'gone for the day,' his secretary said. Warren H. Phillips...
...Apart from Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, Humphrey has history against him; no Vice President has succeeded to the White House by the elective process since Martin Van Buren turned the trick in 1836. Humphrey is undismayed. Despite his relationship with Lyndon Johnson and his manful attempt to avoid the lassitude of his office, Humphrey inevitably found the vice-presidency frustrating and confining. "One of the most awkward offices ever created by the hand of man," he said once. "It is an unnatural role for an active politician...
Died. Brigadier General Lacey Van Buren Murrow, 62, Air Force flyer and eldest brother of the late Edward R. Murrow, a troop-carrier specialist in World War II and Korea, who retired in 1953 to a variety of highway-and railroad-consultant jobs; by his own hand (shotgun); in Baltimore...
...White House. This has been so because mediocre men have often been chosen for the job-a description that scarcely fits Hubert Humphrey. The fact remains that only three Veeps in U.S. history have ascended to the presidency via the ballot (John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren); initially, at least, all the others who reached the White House, from John Tyler to Lyndon Johnson, were elevated by the death of a President...
...Principally Thomas J. J. Altizer of Emory University, William Hamilton of Colgate Rochester Divinity School, and Paul Van Buren of Temple University. Satirizing the basic premise of their new non-theology, the Methodist student magazine motive recently ran an obituary of God in newspaper style: "ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 9?God, creator of the universe, principal deity of the world's Jews, ultimate reality of Christians, and most eminent of all divinities, died late yesterday during major surgery undertaken to correct a massive diminishing influence. "Reaction from the world's great and from the man in the street was uniformly incredulous...