Word: harrison
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...mind. But last week a federal judge in Denver invoked the First Amendment guarantee of free speech in ruling that calling someone a "sleaze bag" who "slimed up from the bayou" does not constitute slander. When Football Coach Darrel ("Mouse") Davis used those words to describe Sports Agent J. Harrison Henderson III, he was free to express his opinion, according to Judge Jim Carrigan. The judge dismissed a suit for at least $12 million in damages that Henderson had filed against Davis and two newspapers that printed the remark...
Robertson counts among his ancestors Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison; his late father A. Willis Robertson served in the House and then the Senate for 34 years. Young Pat won a Phi Beta Kappa key at Washington and Lee University in his hometown of Lexington, Va., served in the Marines and earned his law degree at Yale. But he never worked as a lawyer. While living in New York City with his bride Dede, a nurse, Robertson was trying to succeed in the electronics-components business when his religious calling overtook him. By his account in Shout...
...choked itself to death right on the South Lawn of the White House. A sad loss, but Gardener Irvin Williams has his eye on another sequoia to replace it. Thus does the life cycle on the White House grounds go on even as in the political world. The Benjamin Harrison Quercus coccinea dropped a limb over the fence onto Pennsylvania Avenue the other night. Nobody was underneath, thank goodness. But be wary. A 100-year-old scarlet oak has some privileges when it suddenly wearies. Nonetheless, the trunk of that tree is still sturdy, and it will be around...
...claiming, "I've got the most unique resume of any candidate in either party," one of his ways of trying to overcome the wimp issue and show he has grit. In addition, most members of the class of '88 are playing that time-honored game (pioneered by William Henry Harrison in 1840) of searching for the log cabin that can convey their just-folks humble heritage. The self-made rhetoric all blurs together as Dukakis talks of his immigrant parents, Dole recalls "my father ran a cream-and-egg station," and Gephardt always mentions that...
...biography being churned out by Boston Globe Reporter Ben Bradlee Jr. The deal is only in the exploratory stage, but Hollywood gossip mills already tab Treat Williams as a natural for the part of the hound-dog-eyed Marine. Some would-be casting agents, however, favor Mel Gibson or Harrison Ford. And who better to portray the portly former National Security Adviser John Poindexter than Edward Asner? On the basis of hairstyle alone, Farrah Fawcett is a shoo-in for the part of Ollie's secretary, Fawn Hall. Unless, of course, she beats out Rice Look-Alike Cheryl Ladd...