Word: widerberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daily schedule of appointments is usually pretty dull: a conveyor belt of officials and politicians who pass through his office at intervals between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. and dump their problems and requests on his desk. One day last week President Eisenhower got a welcome surprise when Lynda Widerberg, a pretty blonde in a soft blue organdy dress, walked into his office and announced, "I was going to kiss...
...delighted. "Well, why don't you?" he shot back. And with that he picked up three-year-old Lynda and kissed her. Then, beaming, he turned to greet Lynda's sister and brothers, her mother and her father, Willard Widerberg, 34, a seventh-grade teacher from De Kalb, Ill., who had just been named "Teacher of the Year" by the U.S. Office of Education and McCall's magazine...
...Medal." A moment later the photographers crowded into the office and posed the Widerberg family around the President. In the midst of the picture-taking Ike suddenly slipped his shell-rimmed glasses over the nose of Gregory Widerberg, 6. Greg blinked in surprise. After the pictures, the President went behind his great desk and beckoned to the kids in his best grandfatherly manner. "Come on around here," he said, rummaging through the desk drawers, "and we'll see if I haven't got something for you." As the children gathered around him, Ike fished out two quarters...