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Boyhood: spent at Abilene, in a frame house with three acres. Family circumstances: poor and puritanical. Ike once had to wear his mother's high-button shoes to school. Father David, who eked out a living as a mechanic in a Brethren-operated creamery, gave much attention to Bible reading. Mother Ida, a strong personality and lifelong pacifist who eventually joined Jehovah's Witnesses, held the household together. There were seven children, all sons, of whom four besides the general are still alive-Arthur B., 65, a Kansas City banker; Edgar N., 63, a Tacoma (Wash.) attorney; Earl...
...Dick Button romped to his seventh straight National Figure Skating title at Colorado Springs, Colorado, last night, and tied the national record to boot. The old record was set by Roger Fleming of Boston...
...Button, also holder of five world and two Olympic championships, out-distanced Jimmy Grogan of Colorado for the crown, with his performance in the five free-skating figures last night. Grogan was only nine points down at the end of Thursday evening's events...
Judges awarded Button four firsts and a second in the senior men's compulsory figures competition, while Grogan drew four seconds and a first. World-champion Button, however, is expected to forge well ahead in the free skating tonight...
...Dick Button, Harvard's Olympic titlist, took a slim nine point lead over Jimmy Grogan, as the National Figure Skating Championships opened last night at Colorado Springs...