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FOLLOW THE RUNNING GRASS by Georgia McKinley. 244 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $4.95. First novel about a Texas dynasty from pioneer grandfather to would-be-liberal grandson. Overdone...
...television performing. His manner, leavened by an exquisite sense of self-parody, conjured up Americana, suggestions of snake-oil peddlers, backwoods Shakespeareans, the gentle rapscallionry of Penrod Schofield's or Pudd'nhead Wilson's world. Before he died of a pulmonary embolism at 73, Everett McKinley Dirksen had himself become a unique object of Americana...
Died. Everett McKinley Dirksen, 73, pillar of the U.S. Senate and the Republican Party (see THE NATION...
...Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirlcsen, 73, "resting well" at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington after surgeons removed the tumorous upper lobe of his right lung (a biopsy proved the growth malignant, but surgeons think that they got it all, believe no further treatment will be necessary); James F. Byrnes, 90, former Secretary of State, Supreme Court Justice, Democratic Senator, from and Governor of South Carolina, at Baptist Hospital in Columbia, S C., recuperating and off the critical list after a near-fatal heart attack; Ford Motor Co. Vice President Benson Ford, 50, rushed from his office to Henry Ford...
...Treasurer), William Windom (onetime Treasury Secretary) and Chief One-Papa (a Sioux) share a common distinction. They were all once pictured on U.S. currency that has since gone out of circulation. Now they will be joined in the banknote bonevard by four less obscure historical figures: Presidents William McKinley, James Madison and Grover Cleveland, and Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. The Treasury is stopping production of $500 (McKinley), $1,000 (Cleveland), $5,000 (Madison) and $10,000 (Chase) bills; demand for the big notes, first authorized primarily for dealings between banks in 1918, has dropped to a trickle because...