Word: hubbards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. The Rev. Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard, S.J., 73, brisk, tousle-haired explorer and lecturer who won the nickname "The Glacier Priest" in the Alps but applied it in Alaska, which he observed and filmed during 33 visits on borrowed time from his post as head of the University of Santa Clara's geology department; of a stroke; in Santa Clara, Calif...
...Mother Hubbard. For years, the Supreme Court has refused to assume jurisdiction for federal courts over state apportionment disputes. In the 1946 case of Colegrove v. Green, Justice Felix Frankfurter (who strongly dissented from the majority ruling last week) held that federal courts "ought not to enter this political thicket." This ruling, wrote Justice Tom Clark in concurring with the majority last week, has "served as a Mother Hubbard to most of the subsequent cases." By its latest decision, the Supreme Court has merely opened the cupboard door. It holds that crazy-quilt systems of legislative apportionment may violate...
...Prentice honed his paragraphs into needles to puncture rival editors. In his hands and others, the paragraph took on the quality of wit and humor that characterize it still. One of the best of the later breed was the Indianapolis' News's late, famed Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard, who, as Abe Martin, turned out paragraphs by the thousands. "I think some folks are foolish." wrote Kin Hubbard. "to pay what it costs to live...
...must congratulate you on your excellent coverage of the current crop of children's books ["The Condemned Playground," Dec. 15]. However, it was the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe who was responsible for the "one-woman population explosion," and not Old Mother Hubbard, whose crimes would more appropriately be brought before the Anti-Cruelty Society...
...Mother Hubbard went to her shoe...