Word: usher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among fictional detectives, the most numerous are the Newton types. Popped on the head by the apples of sinister circumstance, they gravitate to solutions by prodigies of deduction. Amateur Detective Ambrose Usher, an Oxford don, is different. Says a baffled friend: "Things don't happen to you: you happen to things. You walk into a perfectly quiet situation . . ." Replies Ambrose: "Oh, dear. Yes, yes. It may be. I'm the apple itself, perhaps. What an awkward role...
Less than three months after their May-December marriage North Dakota's ancient (79), ailing Republican Congressman Usher L. Burdick tired of wife No. 3, his pretty, thirtyish former secretary Jean Rodgers. In an annulment suit filed in Fargo, N.D. by Burdick's lawyer son, the Congressman huffed that Jean "had no intention of consummating the marriage." The bride replied by asking a Washington court for $100 a week separate maintenance...
Poet Ezra Pound, released from a Washington, D.C. mental hospital, paid a friendly visit to North Dakota's aged (79), ailing Representative Usher Burdick, who last year asked in Congress for a review of the poet's case. Spry Ezra did his best to cheer up the Congressman with a 75-minute discourse on everything from American Presidents (Herbert Hoover: "Any man can make errors in his youth"; Franklin D. Roosevelt: "He was a fool"); to the well-documented charges that Pound made treasonable broadcasts from Italy during World War II ("Damned lies-I never told the troops...
...Married. Usher L. Burdick, 79, Republican Congressman from North Dakota for 17 years, lawyer, rancher, collector of rare books; and Jean Rodgers, thirtyish, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the second; in Washington...
...When Benson went to Europe," thundered Republican Congressman Usher Burdick last week, "we made a mistake by buying him a return ticket." Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had curdled North Dakota's Burdick by announcing that federal price supports on milk and butterfat would be cut to the legal minimum, 75% of parity, on April 1. Current support levels: 83% for milk, 80% for butterfat. The cuts were needed, explained Benson, to shrink the "incentive for excessive production...