Word: h
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that it is fairly well known that Nan Wood Graham was the woman who posed for American Gothic [May 10], but I have always been puzzled about why the identity of the man in this famous painting should be so shrouded in anonymity. He was Dr. B. H. McKeeby, and he was a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, dentist. It is a local Cedar Rapids legend-this being a case where the legend may be the truth-that Grant Wood picked Dr. McKeeby as a model while McKeeby was filling Grant's tooth...
...those Middle Eastern mariners in their small ships actually have made a landfall on the shores of the New World hundreds of years before Columbus or the Vikings or the half-dozen other claimants of the discovery of the Americas? Now, a respected authority on Semitic languages, Professor Cyrus H. Gordon of Brandeis University, has discovered additional evidence that may moderate the scholarly skepticism...
Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney, chairman of the Council's nationwide search for a new manager, objected that a "sick man goes to the finest doctor he can get, not to an old friend." Danehy then shot back, "This is not a medical show...
...there is inspiration, it comes in small doses. The predominant theme is "dropping by to see how things are going." So far the players have included: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Stokely Carmichael, Sen. Charles Percy (R-Ill.), and New York Mayor John Lindsay. The personality types tour the camp, shake hands, smile broadly, and leave. That...
Carl Goodwin, Harvard's back-up man to Carter Lord at the offensive end slot for the last three years, was awarded the Jack Fadden Award at last Thursday's Varsity Club Senior Dinner. Rhodes scholar Tom Williamson, an All-Ivy safety, received the Francis H. Burr Scholarship...