Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aware from careful study that Mrs. Kekkonen likes art and antiques, Jackie presented her with a set of books on American art, antiques, homes and literature. While Kennedy and Kekkonen talked business in the White House's Oval Room, Jackie made arrangements for Mrs. Kekkonen to visit Mount Vernon and the National Gallery. The Kekkonens went away delighted with the made-to-order attention...
...Vernon R. Alden, associate Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, has been named the fifteenth president of Ohio University. The 38-year-old Alden is the youngest president of the 12,000 student university since...
...said that Dr. Sockman "looks like Adolph Menjou and acts like John Wesley." The urbane six-footer, in his Homburg and pinstripe, and the warmly moving preacher who crowds his church with 1,500 people of a Sunday, are both a far cry from the farm boy in Mount Vernon, Ohio, whose first speaking experience was when he used to bring cows in at night from a dark wood, and "to keep up my courage, I talked out loud to them." That was not necessarily the road to eloquence; some years later he made some speeches for the Anti-Saloon...
...Mount Vernon, Ind., Indiana University Showboat Majestic: Anchored in the Ohio River, the showboat is presenting Don Marquis' vintage comedy, The Old Soak...
...birthday. Labeling the gift a "private matter," White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger was equally reticent about the ensuing family celebration. When buttonholed on whether the birthday cake was bought or donated, Salinger-still slightly burned by the fallout over Jackie's last major social function, at Mount Vernon-smoothly replied: "It was baked...