Word: butler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ears, chatted with his neighbor, or worked at scraping a wad of gum off his right shoe. When the time came to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, he graciously saluted the vanquished one by one-Running Mate Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey, also scrappy Paul Butler, retiring chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and the absent Harry Truman. Then Jack Kennedy plunged into his speech, proved with considerable eloquence that he had three things uppermost in his mind: his religion, his opponent, and a call for American greatness through sacrifice...
...irrepressible sense of humor, Louis Bosa, 55, has always been fascinated by "the silly human things people do. I play detective all the time." Last week a bit of Bosa's amiable detective work won him first prize ($1,000) at the 25th annual show at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio...
...Butler show, the entries were divided about fifty-fifty between abstract and representational; yet all 20 prizes went to representational works. One reason is that Butler has such a strong reputation for conservatism that most top abstract expressionists will not submit their work. Bosa, however, wonders whether there might not be another reason for the lopsided awards. "There is a movement toward bringing the figure back that you can almost feel. I have no objection to abstract art, but I find it cold. My objection is that we now have an academic style of abstraction, and that's just...
...draft dodger's fortune as high as $10 million. Last week a state tax appraisal deflated the figure to a mere $1,497,483. The bulk of it went to two daughters by his divorced wife Laurette, with bequests of $10,000 each to Rubinstein's butler, two secretaries and a great and good friend, blonde sometime Singer Betty Reed...
Having a Ball. In Baltimore, after being clipped for the second time by foul balls during a Pony League baseball game, Mrs. Lilly Mae Butler refused to hand over the horsehide, was fined $10 for disorderly conduct...