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Died. Mary Pinchot Meyer, 43, Washington abstract artist and niece of Pennsylvania's late Governor Gifford Pinchot; of bullet wounds in the head and chest inflicted by an unsuccessful robber, while she was taking a stroll along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath near her Georgetown studio...
Died. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, 79, widow of Pennsylvania's former Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot, herself a headline-making political activist twice defeated in congressional campaigns; of a circulatory ailment; in Washington...
...about, which occasionally gives his work an extremely farfetched quality." The late Heywood Broun, a Harvard classmate and a World staffer, wrote wryly that Lippmann is "quite apt to score a field goal for Harvard and a touchdown for Yale in one and the same play." Liberal Lawyer Amos Pinchot gave him the title "Obfuscator de Luxe...
...Gifford Pinchot, having drawn breath after the whirlwind campaign that made her husband Governor of Pennsylvania, went to Washington with a plan. "Let the women . . . take charge of prohibition enforcement." she urged President Harding, "and see if they are not more zealous for enforcement than...
Election of a trout-fishing President in 1952 must have encouraged conservationists and those who favor orderly development of natural resources. After all, the G.O.P. was the party of Theodore Roosevelt, of Gifford Pinchot, and of George Norris, all pioneers in the conservation field. And Eisenhower's selection of Douglas McKay as Secretary of the Interior might even have seemed auspicious, for McKay, while Governor of Oregon, had favored federal development of a high multi-purpose dam at Hells Canyon...