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...crime committed by William Blount of Tennessee: inciting Indians to attack the Spanish colonies of Florida and Louisiana. Since then another 14 Senators have been ousted, all for their treasonous support of the South in the Civil War. By comparison, Harrison Williams' involvement in the Abscam bribery scandal seems rather prosaic. But last week all six members of the Senate Ethics Committee recommended that Williams, 61, become the 16th Senator in history-and the first in 119 years-to get the heave...
...same, unfortunately, cannot be said of human beings. If the play is 25 years old, then it follows that Rex Harrison, who was the original Henry Higgins, must be 25 years older than he was then-that is, 73. Now Harrison is a splendid 73, more attractive at three score and 13 than most men are at 37, and his voice will doubtless retain its music when he is 103. But he is perhaps 20 years older than Higgins, the most irascible misogynist since Jack the Ripper, ought to be. Neither Shaw nor Lerner ever indicated that the professor...
Another advertising option is direct mail, which enables the sender to pinpoint his audience. Islip, N.Y., Lawyers William Harrison and Alfred Koffler were dissatisfied with their newspaper-ad campaign offering house closings for $235, so they reduced their rate another $40 and sent out letters to 7,500 homeowners. The result: 200 clients and disciplinary proceedings by the local bar association. While New York State's highest court backed the pair and ruled that direct mail was allowed, 38 states still prohibit...
Then there was the matter of pressing the flesh. Polk and William McKinley both developed extensive theories about the best way to shake many hands without pain or injury; Lyndon Johnson could extend a normal greeting into something like a mugging. Some Presidents failed handshaking. Benjamin Harrison's grip was likened to "a wilted petunia," while one newsman described Woodrow Wilson's as "a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper...
...attention. But the Smithsonian invited him to display them and, as a bonus, allowed him to live in a small tower room. Within a year, Catlin fell seriously ill and, at 76, died. Congress had still refused to buy his collection; not until six years after his death was Harrison's heir persuaded to donate it to the Smithsonian...