Word: lyndhurst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Frances P. Bolton, 91, for nearly 29 years a member of Congress from Ohio; in Lyndhurst, Ohio. Bolton was named to succeed her husband Chester in the House when he died suddenly in 1939 because, presumably, "I knew his thinking. Actually, I didn't have the slightest idea what he thought." Deemed the "Congressman's Congressman" by Eleanor Roosevelt, Bolton was the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee when she was defeated for re-election at the age of 83. An internationalist, she was fascinated by Africa, often paying her own expenses to visit...
...Today show, Critic Gene Shalit said he would like to be a conductor. Immediately, the Long Island Rail Road offered him a job. Then the Orchestral Society of Westchester came up with something better: it asked Shalit to lead a concert last week in the garden of Lyndhurst, Financier Jay Gould's old estate on the Hudson River. Shalit, an amateur bassoonist, accepted with pleasure. As a child, he had taken piano lessons: "You know the kind of thing, the music teacher kisses your Fingers to see if you're a genius." Waving his baton, Shalit said...
After his television speech, McGovern drove to Lyndhurst New Jersey to a Holiday Inn, where a half hour was set aside for the press to file stories on the morning's event. The McGovern campaign had taken a large suite in the motel and had put in over 25 telephone lines so that reporters and radio commentators could phone in their stories. The McGovern staff provided typewriters and prepared texts of the address to make it easier for the press to write their pieces...