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Died. Aneurin Bevan, 62, the impassioned, irrepressible maverick and front-bench spellbinder of the British Labor Party; of cancer; in Chesham, England...
...Argyrol, by William Shack. An entertaining account of the maverick millionaire who hated stuffed noses and shirts, delighted in being the one-man audience of a great art collection...
...quarters in the Hotel Bellevue in order to qualify as a "resident," and plunged into the primary campaign against eight opponents. At first he was shy and ill at ease, but as the campaign warmed up, so did he. Watching his son shake hands on a busy corner of Maverick Square, old Joe was frankly amazed: "I never thought Jack...
Besides watching Maverick, the boys spend the long 30-below-zero nights dreaming up tall tales to intrigue the tourists, come summer. Choice tales of yesteryear, apparently now out of circulation, related how much we relished ice worms for breakfast, how we mined gold with aureal (aurora borealis) energy, and how our engineering students built the Klon Dike...
...reward to North Dakota's maverick-Republican Senator, the late William ("Wild Bill") Langer, who cast a crucial vote against Senate investigation of alleged 1946 vote frauds in Truman's home town, Kansas City...