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...Were the speakers recorded accurately? Again, yes. The catch is that Swayze's questions and Dirksen's responses were spliced together, out of context, from two separate tapes. The result is a new comedy album, Welcome to the L.B.J. Ranch, created by Gag Writer Earle Doud, that in two weeks has sold some 500,000 copies and bids fair to rival Doud's earlier spoof, The First Family (with Vaughn Meader as J.F.K...
...where their mother died last September. While pondering the sale of the house, the sisters packed off many of its furnishings to Goodwill Industries, only to hastily retrieve a couple of items (including their mother's hand-carved rocker) after the Colorado Historical Society decided to add a Doud family room to its State Museum...
...flew on to Denver at week's end (for the funeral services of his beloved "Min," Mamie's mother Elivera Doud, 82-see MILESTONES). From a purely political point of view, Republicans could take comfort from the roar of the week's crowds wherever he went, particularly those he heard in New York. Clearly his eight-year honeymoon with the American voter had not lost its glow...
Died. Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud, 82, mother of Mamie Eisenhower; of a stroke; in Denver. Daughter of Swedish immigrants, she was born in Boone, Iowa, at 16 married Meat Packer John Doud (who died in 1951). A witty woman with a tart tongue, she moved to Denver in 1904, lived and died in the same house the Douds bought then. To Ike she was "Min"-after Mrs. Andy Gump in the comic strip: she got the nickname from Ike and her two daughters, who would kiddingly chorus, "Oh, Min!" when John Doud, in search of missing apparel, called, "Oh, Mother...
...have found out in later years that we were very poor. But the glory of America is that we didn't know it then." In a 1959 speech, he again drew on his memories, going back to his days as an Army subaltern, newly married to Mamie Geneva Doud, when he scrimped to buy a tiny insurance policy. "Well," he said, "I gave up smoking readymade cigarettes and went to Bull Durham and the papers.* I had to make a great many sacrifices . . . Yet I still think of the fun we had in working for our own future...