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...went off to college, eventually founding a Nebraska radio station. She married the local soda jerk, who eventually became Vice President. Then, in 1979, shortly after the death of his wife, Max Brown, 68, decided to write a letter to his former Huron (S. Dak.) High School classmate. Muriel Humphrey, Hubert's widow, also 68, quickly responded, and Max ventured to ask her out to lunch. Eighteen months later -and a week before Valentine's Day-the two were quietly married. Her four children and ten grandchildren and his two children and five grandchildren attended the ceremony...
Ervin J. Halvorson, U.S.N. (ret.) Sioux Falls, S. Dak...
...late Hubert Humphrey used to love to tell the story of the men from the Department of Agriculture in Washington who came to rescue his baked, broke and forgotten prairie town of Doland, S. Dak., in the midst of drought and Depression. Those fellows were white knights to Humphrey, they were missionaries, they were the reason Humphrey put so much faith in Big Government. Yet even H.H.H. before his death sometimes despaired at the way insensitive bureaucrats had forgotten that they existed to serve, not to threaten...
...small-town banker, Christopher was born in Scranton, N. Dak., 55 years ago. As a teenager, he migrated with his family to California, where he earned a law degree from Stanford. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, then joined the prestigious Los Angeles law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. From the start of his legal career, Christopher was active in Democratic politics. He joined the 1958 gubernatorial campaign of Pat Brown, following Brown to Sacramento as his special counsel. He went off to Washington in 1967 as Deputy U.S. Attorney General. Assignments to help calm...
...Drake, N. Dak., the five-member school board in 1973 ordered the confiscation and burning of three books that, according to Professor Jenkinson, none of the members had read: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, James Dickey's Deliverance and an anthology of short stories by writers like Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Said the school superintendent Slater: "I don't regret it one bit, and we'd do it again. I'm just sorry about all the publicity that we got." In Warsaw, Ind., a gaggle of citizens in 1977 publicly burned...