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...fact, Anna Christina Olson, and until her death last week of a heart attack at the age of 74, very few people had ever seen her in person, although millions know her from Wyeth's work. A reclusive spinster who lived in a weatherbeaten grey homestead in Cushing, Me., up the road a piece from the house in which Wyeth and his family have summered for many years, Christina Olson was severely crippled by polio in childhood. Nonetheless, she supported herself for most of her life as a seamstress, earned a local reputation as a fine cook...
...Frick was incensed when she unwrapped a Christmas present: Historian Sylvester K. Stevens' Pennsylvania: Birthplace of a Nation (Random House), which limned her "stern, brusque, autocratic" father as the hard-knuckled "Coke King" who forced Pennsylvania coal miners to toil for $1.60 a day and crushed "the disastrous Homestead strike...
...Harvard Business School. Returning to Houston, he became city treasurer and chief administrative officer in four years. Then he joined College Pal Jack Valenti, who later became L.B.J.'s aide, to form the Jamaica Corp., now a multimillion-dollar land-developing company. He also became president of Homestead State Bank. Thus, with experience and contacts, he was a natural in 1966 for L.B.J. to name to the three-man board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
...chasing such outlaws as the Reno Boys and the James Brothers. About the only tarnished spot on the Pinks' badge of honor was their later service when they hired out as company spies or strikebreakers in incidents like the 1892 steelworkers' strike against Andrew Carnegie's Homestead plant outside Pittsburgh. Still sensitive about those years, Pinkerton's Inc. today turns down labor-relations cases as quickly as it does divorces...
...great losers in the history of U.S. presidential elections, a title he won in 1936 by carrying only two states against F.D.R., Kansas' Alf London, 79, has a rueful understanding of the uncertainties of politics. So when CBS-TV's Eric Sevareid dropped in at his Topeka homestead to talk about the next race, Landon smiled, said simply that he is backing Michigan's Governor George Romney, and added: "Anybody who attempts to predict the election of 1968 is nuts...