Word: fishbait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford ran out of tickets for the late afternoon inaugural ceremonies and had to appeal to House Doorkeeper William M. ("Fishbait") Miller for extras. Betty Ford consulted Son Michael, 23, a student at Massachusetts' Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, about the Jerusalem Bible that he had bought especially for the inaugural. Where should it be opened when she held it during the swearing-in? They agreed on the 20th Psalm ("May Yahweh [God] answer you in time of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob 'protect you' "). Said Mrs. Ford: "I hope my hand doesn...
Brubaker's routine is to pick up the ashes of the loved one himself and escort the bereaved aboard his yacht. (The fishbait tank seemed an insurmountable embarrassment until Brubaker shrewdly camouflaged it as a catafalque.) After the service is rendered beyond the three-mile limit, the deceased is solemnly committed to the deep-from the stern. "If the ashes were dropped from either side," Brubaker explains, "they might blow back into the boat...