Word: herbert
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...alive at a time of trouble is part of a long tradition. White House Christmases have often been bittersweet affairs. None was bleaker than the 1963 holiday, observed under the shadow of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Back in 1929, just a few weeks after the stock-market crash, Herbert Hoover's family was having Christmas Eve dinner when fire broke out in the west wing of the White House. As fire trucks clanged, Lou Hoover gathered her grandchildren and read them Christmas stories to calm their fears...
...know, maybe Freud was rightmaybe we are all doomed to repeat the mistakes of our parents. Perhaps that explains why I campaigned door-to-door for Herbert Hoover last year. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'd like to be Harvard President, although, come to think of it, the one person I know who went to Harvard was my cousin Irving, who later had a nervous breakdown in which he put on a squirrel costume and tried to climb the Empire State Building, so maybe its not such a hot idea after all. Sincerely, Allen...
...DIED. Herbert Brodkin, 77, innovative television producer who examined such subjects as Nazism (Holocaust and Skokie), euthanasia, blacklisting and abortion (episodes of The Defenders); in New York City. Brodkin charged that the networks claimed to give viewers what they want, but in failing to give them "anything good," they "have reduced the audience's level of receptivity to a bunch of monkeys asking for the same peanuts...
During the long night, Siber was compared to Republican Sen. Jesse Helms (N.C.), who won reelection last night. Joe Ryan, president of College Democrats of Massachusetts, even likened Silber to "Herbert Hoover, who for some time was president of Princeton." Ryan predicted that if "the U.S. falls into a recession" Silber would be a great candidate for president in 1996. "I would work for him in 1996, and he would have a good chance if Dan Quayle runs--anyone could beat Quayle...
...Block? For the past several years, rumors of Kissin's prowess have been filtering out of the Soviet Union. At 12, he played both Chopin piano concertos on the same program in Moscow, his home city. There were sightings in Berlin, Budapest and Belgrade. About two years ago, Herbert von Karajan gave him the kiss of recognition by inviting the lad to play the Tchaikovsky concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic. The major record labels came running...