Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Portrait: The Man from Independence. Robert Vaughn plays the young Harry Truman, putting his life on the line to fight corruption in Missouri. Some trivia: early in his career, Vaughn played an amusing character in a half-hour Hitchcock mystery. His name is A. Dunster Lowell (we all know what the A stands for), better known as the Boston Terrier, criminologist. Relying on the sophisticated gadgetry concocted by his ex-Harvard physics prof (an absentminded old codger), Lowell solves a homicide before the murderer can say U.N.C.L.E. Ch. 5, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
While some Lutheran traditionalists in Bavaria chose to leave their church, conservatives in the U.S. have consolidated control of the administration and seminaries of the 2.8 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. But it may be at the cost of a serious schism...
...threat of schism within the Missouri Synod has intensified. A large group of dissidents (Evangelical Lutherans in Mission) have now officially cast their lot with the strikers, announcing that they will divert their contributions from church headquarters to a new mission board and the seminary in exile. A conciliation board is still at work trying to mend the tattered situation, but the prospects for restoring unity are bleak...
...truth. Among his more celebrated stories: the uncovering of a bloodthirsty gang in the 1920s known as the Green Ones, and a series that won a Pulitzer Prize for the Post-Dispatch in 1952. Its detailing of corruption led to an overhaul of the Internal Revenue Bureau in Missouri and the resignation of William Boyle, then the Democratic national chairman...
...blue funks" as well as the living expenses that pursued him. (DeVoto had a fondness for domestic help, new Buicks and private education.) This "literary department store" came as close as he could to respectability as a historian. In 1948 he won a Pulitzer Prize for Across the Wide Missouri, a chronicle of fur trappers in the 1830s. Five years later, a National Book Award came for The Course of Empire, which starts with a provocative quote from Columbus to Queen Isabella and ends with the Lewis and Clarke Expedition reaching the Pacific...