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...Wagnerian orchestra: after the ardors of two long acts, he still had a great reservoir of lyric beauty left for the Prize Song that finishes the performance-and finishes the pretensions of a good many tyro tenors with it. A big (6 ft. 3 in.) and muscular South Dakotan, Thomas may well be the Heldentenor grand opera has awaited since Melchior...
...scant hour after winging into Washington from South Dakota, Lawyer Joseph H. Botfum, 58-was sworn in on the Senate floor, replacing the late Republican Senator Francis Case. The diligent Dakotan helped found his state's first Young Republicans' chapter in 1934 and got Governor Archie Gubbrud's endorsement after rising to the lieutenant-governorship in 1960. No sooner was he in his seat than Bottum cast his first vote against a Democratic amendment to the NASA appropriations bill. Chuckled South Dakota's Senior Senator Karl Mundt: "It was a good start for a Republican...
...Strasburg, North Dakota, and few at the time ever thought that he would grow up to intoxicate millions of music lovers with champagne music. As it turned out, North Dakota's Welk became an answer to Wisconsin's Liberace. But, after Lawrence Welk, wondered many a North Dakotan, what...
Everett Dirksen apparently could not decide if Langer was being facetious. He finally decided to play the North Dakotan straight, and as always, Dirksen was ready with a flowery reply. Said he: "The only thing I know in the rulebook about flowers is that there is in the general rules appertaining to the Senate a provision that flowers must not be brought into the Senate Chamber." It would be best, he thought, for individual Senators to follow their consciences about sending bouquets to Joe. But, he added, "Any Senator is at liberty to send flowers ... if the sweet and gentle...
...North Dakotan Langer seemed to be dragging his feet on other proposals, among them Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen's 25% limitation on income-tax rates and Vermont Republican Ralph Flanders' measure to make the Constitution acknowledge "the authority and law of Jesus Christ...