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Died. May Bonfils Stanton, eightyish, elder daughter of the Denver Post's late Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils, who fell out with her father over her first marriage, lived much of her life in semi-seclusion in a 20-room marble copy of Marie Antoinette's Petit Trianon, and pursued a 30-year feud with her younger sister-and current Post boss-Helen Bonfils Davis with such intensity that the Post was not even informed of May's death, got scooped on the obituary by the rival Rocky Mountain News; after a long illness; in Denver...
...Live Hero. Other speakers had diverse conservative messages. Said New York University's Economist Ludwig Von Mises, 80: "Until a few years ago, I thought freedom was dead on the American campus; now I see that you young men will make us free." Said Indianapolis News Editor M. Stanton Evans, 27: "I say the twist was originated in Washington by the Kennedy Administration-a lot of frantic motion with no visible progress." South Carolina's Senator J. Strom Thurmond, 59. combined an attack on the Administration for invoking executive privilege during the continuing Senate investigation of military censorship...
...your review of Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War [Feb. 23], your reviewer writes, "In large part, it was Johnson's attack on Stanton that led Congress to try to impeach the President. The attempt failed by one vote...
Besides Thurmond the list of YAF award winners still includes Herbert Hoover, John Wayne, John Dos Passos, and conservative editor M. Stanton Evans...
...usually was. Stanton angrily swept the graft and inefficiency out of the War Department, set about building the greatest army in the U.S.'s young history. He early spotted the weakness in McClellan and the greatness in Grant. Anyone who wanted to talk to him had only to show up in his reception room. Writes Hyman: "Stanton personified force and competence as he stood behind the tall desk, looking each visitor squarely, almost defiantly, in the eye, his wide forehead flushed, his complexion dark and mottled, his lips compressed above his immense black beard, which gave off a mixed...