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Reputed to contain the "longest bar in New Haven," the Deke house eventually elected Bush its president. A home to campus jocks including the eventual professional football player Calvin Hill, Deke would provide music from the likes of Wilson Pickett and beer of a slightly lesser quality...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bush Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...scattered American invasion force on Omaha Beach and pushed it past the German defenses; Robert Mitchum played him in The Longest Day. A hundred yards away, under a similarly modest headstone, rests Alonzo H. Cushing, who commanded the federal battery at Gettysburg that stood at the very point Pickett aimed his charge. Cushing, twice wounded, stayed at his guns, firing double canister at the converging Confederates until a third shot got him. Right behind him is buried Judson Kilpatrick, a general considered so profligate with the lives of his men that they called him "Kill Cavalry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST POINT, NY: TOO MANY BRAVE SOULS | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...OWEN PICKETT (D) District 2 (Parts of Norfolk and Virginia Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: VIRGINIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

With the 1992 redistricting depleting his traditional support, Pickett, a moderate, has become more vulnerable during the past several years, but he has shifted to the right to accommodate his new conservative base. In 1993 he was one of only five Democrats to twice oppose Clinton's deficit-reduction plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: VIRGINIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

PLEADED GUILTY. WILSON PICKETT, 55, rhythm-and-blues singer; to being under the influence of cocaine; in Hackensack, New Jersey. Police arrested Pickett in April after a yelling, bleeding woman ran from his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 15, 1996 | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

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