Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started a week ago. Portia--a toothy, freckled, hayseed and broom-bottom blonde from North Dakota's School of Co-ed Agriculture--began her first week of Harvard's summer session with a stroll. The day was heavy with clouds and traffic and disillusion, a time of ivory idols crumbling and tears in the lemonade. For Portia's dream died hard...
...North Dakota. Ailing, cantankerous Senator William L. Langer, 71, was resoundingly renominated in the Republican primary. Last March the Republican convention dumped Wild Bill because he had been a fairly consistent Democratic voter in the Senate, chose instead devoted Party Hack Lieutenant Governor Clyde Duffy, 67, to run for Langer's Senate spot. Langer (an adopted son of the Sioux Indians), once the favorite of the now-divided Non-partisan League, could not have cared less, filed against Duffy in the primary, showed his craggy face on only three campaign trips, wound up with a whopping victory. One source...
Judge Lemley, Virginia-born grandson of a Confederate soldier, 74-year-old veteran of law practice in Arkansas, in effect reversed the integration orders of his North Dakota-based predecessor, Judge Ronald Davies-the orders that President Eisenhower had moved federal troops into Little Rock to enforce...
Less than three months after their May-December marriage North Dakota's ancient (79), ailing Republican Congressman Usher L. Burdick tired of wife No. 3, his pretty, thirtyish former secretary Jean Rodgers. In an annulment suit filed in Fargo, N.D. by Burdick's lawyer son, the Congressman huffed that Jean "had no intention of consummating the marriage." The bride replied by asking a Washington court for $100 a week separate maintenance...
Poet Ezra Pound, released from a Washington, D.C. mental hospital, paid a friendly visit to North Dakota's aged (79), ailing Representative Usher Burdick, who last year asked in Congress for a review of the poet's case. Spry Ezra did his best to cheer up the Congressman with a 75-minute discourse on everything from American Presidents (Herbert Hoover: "Any man can make errors in his youth"; Franklin D. Roosevelt: "He was a fool"); to the well-documented charges that Pound made treasonable broadcasts from Italy during World War II ("Damned lies-I never told the troops...