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DIED. Elizabeth Hadley Mowrer, 87, the first of Ernest Hemingway's four wives; in Lakeland, Fla. Mowrer (nee Richardson) and Hemingway were married in 1921. Five years later, he divorced her to marry Fashion Writer Pauline Pfeiffer. Remorseful, the novelist dedicated The Sun Also Rises to "Hadley," assigned her its royalties, and wrote fondly of her and their one child "Bumby" in his memoirs, A Moveable Feast. In 1933 Hadley married Paul Scott Mowrer, a Pulitzer-prize-winning foreign correspondent and later editor of the Chicago Daily News...
...Ernest R. May, chairman of the History Department, said he could not predict the future of History 1711 until he finishes hiring new junior faculty in about six weeks. He said he might find someone with an American and East Asian history background similar to Stanley...
...right hands, English is a precision instrument. And, like all such devices, it is alternately blunted and sharpened by its users. In 1978, many nicks and abrasions came from Washington. Ernest Boyer, U.S. Commissioner of Education, admitted that he had been faking it: he actually pretended to understand memos. The confession was prompted by logorrhea in his own department: "This office's activities during the year were primarily continuing their primary functions of education of the people to acquaint them of their needs, problems and alternate problem solutions, in order that they can make wise decisions in planning...
...information came from Mark Weiss of Queens College in New York City and his associate, Ernest Aschkenasy. Both are highly regarded experts. They helped find the erasure marks in the 18½-minute gap on one of Richard Nixon's White House tapes. Using a computer to assist them, Weiss and Aschkenasy examined a tape recording of the sounds transmitted from a motorcycle policeman's radio that happened to have been left on during the shooting. The tape had been available to the Warren Commission, but the science of acoustic analysis was not then sufficiently sophisticated to make...
...Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial believes that local politics is now "the cutting edge of the civil rights movement." But black mayors must balance the needs of all their constituents, often diluting their force as leaders of only the black communities. According to Atlanta's highly regarded Mayor Maynard Jackson, blacks themselves are increasingly skeptical of black leaders. Says Jackson: "If a black candidate believes he can still excite to the same extent the vote-for-me-because-I'm-black spirit, that candidate is badly mistaken. Black people want to know what the black candidate is going...