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...DIED. Emmet John Hughes, 61, presidential aide and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower, longtime journalist at Time Inc. and author who wrote extensively on the U.S. presidency; of a heart attack; in Kingston, N.J. Despite drafting speeches for Ike's 1952 and 1956 campaigns and working from 1968 to 1970 for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Hughes saw himself as a "dissident Democrat." In America the Vincible (1959), he called the Eisenhower Administration's foreign policies "static, timid, vacillating and unrealistic," thus severing his personal relationship with the President. With The Ordeal of Power: A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower...
...Crimson defense more than proved itself against the high-scoring Crusaders, who were mostly second-string varsity players. "Cecil Cox, Brent Clapacs, and Emmet Walsh all played quite well," Singelton said, adding, "Their play kept us in the game...
Harvard punted back, and then Dartmouth punted back to the Crimson. Dartmouth found itself in scoring position late in the first quarter, but Emmet Walsh and Brent Clapacs recovered a loose ball for the Crimson. On the next play, Dartmouth got the ball back on a Harvard fumble...
...Child's Garden of Verses, published in 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to "innocent and honest children" who were "very little, and your bones are very brittle." His concept of childhood as a special, inviolable realm was reflected in the canvases of John Singer Sargent, Lydia Emmet and George Wesley Bellows. The girls they painted were radiant creatures, living in their own protected worlds...
...fills the stores; a theme amusement park of the Disneyland sort has been talked of; Muppets have been visible in TV commercials and in guest appearances on such varied offerings as the old Ed Sullivan Show and the current Saturday Night Live. This week an hour-long TV special, Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, is on view in the U.S. And, of course, the Muppets Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, who lives in a garbage can, and the renowned Big Bird, who is 8 ft. tall and has not just an arm but an entire person inside...