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Among Middelhoff's new acquaintances was Samuel ("Si") Newhouse, chairman of Advance Publications, which publishes, among other magazines, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. A week after attending Si's birthday party, Middelhoff bought Advance's Random House book business for $1.4 billion...
...possible to win the electoral vote while losing the popular vote and that "it happened in 1888, when Benjamin Harrison defeated Grover Cleveland," even though Cleveland got 90,000 more popular votes. In case anyone has forgotten, it also occurred in 1876, when Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Samuel Tilden despite Tilden's slight majority of popular votes. Ultimately, the choice of Hayes as President was made by a committee vote along strict party lines; nevertheless, Hayes' election stands as a second example of the antidemocratic potential of the Electoral College. CROSS G. MOORADIAN Detroit...
...next succession crisis came a half-century later, in the aftermath of the Civil War. In 1876 the Democratic candidate, Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York, won the popular vote. It appeared he had won the electoral vote too. But Southern states were still under military occupation, and electoral boards in Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina rapidly disqualified Democratic ballots in an effort to shift the electoral college majority to the Republican candidate, Rutherford Hayes of Ohio. In 1876 as in 2000, both parties sent into Florida a posse of top lawyers and other notables. Among the Hayes advocates...
...music director of the New York Philharmonic at the time. "Mitropoulos really put me on the map when he conducted two pieces of mine in a season, which was unheard of. Next thing I know, I'm getting congratulatory letters from the leading American composers of the day, like Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland. I was completely unknown at the time...
...increased flirtation with paganism? Mightn't these be signs of growing scientific illiteracy and irrationalism? We humans should take responsibility for our actions and stop blaming God and Satan for our shortcomings and follies. History has demonstrated what happens to civilizations in which reason is replaced by irrationality. SAMUEL KOUNAVES Boston...