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“PULLMAN PORTER LECTURES: Ford Makes a Hit in an Address to Students at Dartmouth.” The Times continued to report on my grandfather in its April 13 issue of that year: “PULLMAN PORTER WINS AS COLLEGE LECTURER; John Baptist Ford, Who Made Four Hundred Dartmouth Students Look at His Profession with New Eyes, Talks of Traveling Public.”
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
When students at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism in Chicago (named for Robert McCormick’s grandfather) were asked in 1927 to name the ten most outstanding people in the world, they chose Charles Lindbergh, Richard Byrd, Benito Mussolini, Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, George Bernard Shaw, the golfer Bobby Jo
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Michael Palin on the loss of his wife of 57 years: ‘I’d love Helen to still be here, telling me off’
Simon Hattenstonetheguardian.comBecause campaign contributions were not a deductible business expense, Brown & Root distributed to company executives and lawyers hundreds of thousands of dollars in deductible “bonuses” and “attorneys’ fees,” which Internal Revenue Service agents came to believe were then funneled, in both checks and cash, to the Johnson campaign—contributions
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
While, during the next few minutes, the news was trickling in from Dallas, one decision was made quickly: Keith Wheeler’s proposed second article on Lyndon Johnson would not run in the next issue of the magazine: there was obviously going to be so much other news that there would be no room for it. About a week later, William Lambert went in to see
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
Luisa and I are leaving for California; the Broccolis have kindly loaned us their house in Beverley Hills, Hollywood, where I have been asked to present the Oscar for ‘Best Actor’. Without wishing to sound too partisan, I hope I hand it to my mate, Michael Caine, who is nominated for his performance in Sleuth.
Sir Roger Moore KBE • The 007 Diaries: Filming Live and Let Die
was anxious about meeting Charlie. I always thought he’d be quite fierce and sarcastic and angry, and he’s not at all. He’s quite geeky and incredibly generous with his sense of humour. He clearly has a very sharp intellect, but he doesn’t need to be the funniest person in the room – he wants you to be as funny as he is. I’ve never laughed as much
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