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...State University of New York at Oswego, proud possessor of thousands of the papers of our most underrated President, Millard Fillmore, rises once more to his defense. There is a quotation much more representative of the true Fillmore than the one used. In declining the honorary degree from Oxford University, he said, "I had not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgment, accept a degree that he cannot read." How many honorary degrees the world would have been spared if others had followed his example...
...centuries' worth of British biography and gossip. Historian Paul F. Boiler Jr. had to confine himself to the 39 Americans who, for better or worse, served among the acknowledged legislators of the world. Abraham Lincoln is here, but so, unavoidably, are James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren and Millard Fillmore...
Seagram has retained two investment banking firms, Lazard Freres and Shearson Loeb Rhoades, in its effort to snare Conoco. Rohatyn and his Lazard Freres staff of only a dozen handled $10 billion worth of mergers last year. Shearson's group is led by Managing Director Mark Millard, 72, who in 1963 advised Seagram Chairman Edgar Bronfman to buy Texas Pacific Oil Co. for $326 million. Seagram last year sold Texas Pacific to the Sun Oil Co. for $2.3 billion; that money is now providing the bulk of funds used in the bidding for Conoco...
Others of Diana's kinsmen made their mark in worldly affairs, many as great statesmen. George Washington is an eighth cousin seven times removed, and through the wife of an eccentric American great-great-grandfather, Diana is related to Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sir Winston Churchill (middle name: Spencer) is a cousin, as is former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Scholarly limbs include Historian Henry Adams, Philosopher Bertrand Russell and Lexicographer Noah Webster. Theatrical boughs: Humphrey Bogart and Lillian Gish...
Bunky produced all the Sheppards' songs. They had two top lead singers. Murrie Eskridge took the harder-driving numbers and Millard ("Mill") Edwards handled the more wistful songs, making Island of Love come within cutting distance of some of the Drifters' best material. Unlike the long-lived Drifters, the Sheppards broke up and stayed broken. Who remembered? Who even knew...