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...tenured nominees are: James S. Ackerman, Fine Arts: Kenneth J. Arrow, Economics; Herbert Bloch, Classics; Elkan R. Blout, Div. of Med. Sci.; Dwight Bolinger, Romance Lang. and Lit.; William H. Bossert '59, Biophysics; Charles W. Burnham, Geological Sciences...
...said after V-E Day in 1945, "but never have I forgotten Abilene." Nor had the town of Abilene forgotten its most illustrious son. For the burial, official decoration was modest, consisting of small flags hung on lampposts. Most stores put up signs saying "Closed in respect to Dwight Eisenhower." Such restraint, as TIME'S Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark noted, "does not mean that they were not proud of him or that they did not admire him tremendously. They did, both as the famous home-town boy and as a reflection of their own down-to-earth values...
...tears only occasionally. About two hours after the interment, when the last of the official visitors had departed, she returned unobtrusively to the small chapel. There she placed yellow gladioli on her husband's crypt and yellow chrysanthemums on the nearby tomb of her first born son, Doud Dwight, who died at the age of three...
...people regardless of station, race or calling. May cooperation be permitted, and be the mutual aim of those who, under the concepts of our Constitution, hold to differing political faiths, so that all may work for the good of our beloved country and Thy glory." Dwight Eisenhower sought throughout his presidency to live by those words. In death, he endures as one who personified his country's virtues and who upheld these virtues...
...most memorable things about the funeral of Dwight David Eisenhower (see THE NATION) was its quiet dignity. The brief Biblical service and the confident hymns bespoke the man who had chosen them before his death; like him, they were modest, realistic and hopeful. Yet, in a nation whose overblown funeral rites were once the proper subject of mockery in Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, such a straightforward farewell is no longer the exception. Christian funerals in the U.S. are changing, and they now tend to emphasize the simple, yet triumphant qualities that characterized the Eisenhower rites...