Word: interiorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herter was born in Paris, of expatriate artist parents, and the first language he learned was his governess' native German. He was trained not in the law-the staple of U.S. Secretaries of State-but in fine arts, and he originally set out to become an architect and interior decorator...
...deciding on a career in the arts. Herter was following in family footsteps. His German-born grandfather, the first Christian Herter, was an architect and interior decorator who designed and lavishly adorned the Fifth Avenue mansions of such gilded-age moguls as J.P. Morgan and William H. Vanderbilt. In his early 40s, having piled up a million of his own, Grandfather Herter said farewell to his family and went off to live in Paris, where a few years later he died of tuberculosis, leaving behind a sadly dwindled fortune and two gifted sons. Son Christian (uncle of Christian Archibald) became...
Seaton's Stand. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton helped mightily to promote statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. But during Alaska's own election campaigns. Seaton's razzle-dazzle campaigning got a cool reception, largely because he was regarded as the voice of the federal "absentee landlord" in Washington. Despite his lavish promises of Republican federal help, Alaska's Democrats rolled up a big victory. Result: "Landlord"' Seaton will electioneer in low key-and only if invited-in the campaign for the June primaries now beginning in Hawaii...
Made-Up Mind? The President and party leaders considered two dozen possibles ranging from Interior Secretary Fred Seaton to Ohio's Chairman Ray Bliss to fireballing Chicago Camera Maker Charles H. Percy. Ultimate choice: Thruston (rhymes with boostin') Ballard Morton, 51, elected Kentucky's junior Senator in 1956. Husky (6 ft. 2 in., 185 lbs.) Thruston Morton, seventh-generation Kentuckian, is no politician-come-lately. He served three House terms (entered as a freshman with Congressman Richard Nixon). In 1952 he was the lone Eisenhower supporter in Kentucky's 20-man Taft-minded convention delegation. Later...
...overnight with a little cash behind it. In Scientific American this week, Geologist Willard Bascom published the first full report of a onetime AMSOC daydream, which is now backed by the National Science Foundation: to drill a hole right down through the earth's crust to its hidden interior...