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PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). President Grover Cleveland's opposition to benefits for Civil War veterans...
Died. Erwin R. Bergdoll, 74, World War I draft dodger, the playboy son of a German-American brewer in Philadelphia, who, with his better known younger brother, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, proclaimed "we do not wish to fight against our own kind," skipped around the country from 1918 to 1920, sending federal authorities postcards until he finally surrendered (Grover fled to Germany) and served half of a four-year sentence; of a heart attack; in Camden...
...coalition known as the "People's Party." Though he campaigned with a verve and color reminiscent of Daniel Webster, his reputation-deserved or undeserved-had caught up with him. He polled only 175,000 votes of the 10 million cast in an election that went narrowly to Democrat Grover Cleveland. When Butler died in 1893, at the age of 74, Charles Dana of the New York Sun wrote his epitaph: "He was no pretender and no hypocrite...
...history teacher in Indiana says that she hates to teach the Grover Cleveland period - the time of civil-service reform, the Interstate Commerce Act, the Populist revolt, the panic of 1893, and the first attempt at a federal income tax - "because nothing happened." Another teacher, asked to ex plain the Monroe Doctrine, replied: "That was our attitude toward Europe plus Europe's attitude toward us." American history is taught badly, and teachers, rather than books or equipment, are mostly to blame. So say three Indiana University history professors who witnessed classroom performance in junior and senior high schools throughout...
...rural road and killed his father on New Year's Eve, 1944. With only a broken bumper guard as solid evidence, Lumber Merchant Lee, now 51, traced scores of cars, braced dozens of suspects and traveled 100,000 miles before he caught up last summer with Grover Jones, 55, now an Indianapolis handyman. Lee amassed 153 pages of circumstantial evidence, and Jones was indicted for second-degree murder...