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...HOMESPUN PLATITUDE...
...Hillary Clinton's quote introducing the President for a gun-control speech: "Part of growing up is learning to control one's impulses" [NOTEBOOK, May 10]. One wonders why she didn't give this bit of homespun philosophy to husband Bill. HELEN KLECKNER Conshohocken...
...political campaign genre. Steve Forbes' Web site-www.Forbes2000.com-touts such resounding endorsements as this one from Rush Limbaugh, "The leading conservative...would have to be Steve Forbes, I think. Steve Forbes is doing everything right...I admire Mr. Forbes, and he's doing the right thing." With homespun wisdom like that, how can you go wrong...
Historians' comments: "Architect of the winning strategy in the cold war"; "A decent human being with homespun virtues...
DIED. EDWIN J. SHOEMAKER, 90, homespun engineer who furnished living rooms--and couch potatoes the world over--with his invention of the La-Z-Boy recliner; while sitting in one of his signature seats in Sun City, Ariz. After a few drafting lessons from correspondence school, Shoemaker in 1928 joined a cousin to make a reclining porch chair using a piece of plywood and a yardstick. In later models, of which there were many, Shoemaker jazzed up the chair with plush upholstery, a retractable footrest, and during the '60s, a feature that allowed the sitter to recline and rock simultaneously...