Word: frontiersman
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While most press observers felt that the New Frontier was in sight, there was wide speculation about its climate and the style of its economy, and about a Frontiersman's proper pace. The Kansas City Times studied the Kennedy task-force recession report and was reassured: "We have the impression that the New Frontier is to be approached warily." The Reporter magazine called for the spur: "The men in the new Administration perforce have to be men of action." Rowland Evans Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune's Washington bureau filed a weather forecast on Kennedy...
...Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, by Don Russell. The bearded old bisonbane was a showman, but he was also a notable frontiersman, and this biography does a good job of sorting the facts from the flamdoodle...
...Russell. The bearded old bison-bane was a showman, but he was also a notable frontiersman, and this biography does a good job of sorting the facts from the flamdoodle...
...Clemens' father was a restless frontiersman, always dreaming of wealth and never finding it. The boy loathed school in Hannibal, Mo. As he later let Huck Finn put it: "At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired, I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up." Clemens himself fled school by the time...
...Marion duPont Scott (former wife of Actor Randolph Scott). In Montpelier's heyday there was no more festive scene than the dinner parties for 90, presided over by vivacious Dolly Madison, "a fine, portly, buxsom dame." Virginians not only maintained standards; they set them as well, as Frontiersman Andrew Jackson's Hermitage (opposite) proves. "Old Hickory" and his devoted, pipe-smoking Rachel cheerfully put up with log cabins for 15 years before they realized their dream of a grand white-colonnaded house of their own. Jackson built the Hermitage in 1819, four years after the Battle...