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"Pamela Stein" - 11 Total Result(s)
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A LIFETIME MEMBER
President Richard Nixon frequently bowled during his time in the Oval Office. His wife, Pat Nixon, also loved the sport. In 1969, the First Lady earned a lifetime membership to the Women’s Internation ...
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A REVOLUTIONARY ROLL
During the Russian Revolution of 1905, artists analyzed the tension across the empire through political cartoons. In this cartoon, a Russian woman surveyed skittle pins depicting ministers and politic ...
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A ROYAL STRIKE
Bowling is an accessible and fun activity for everyone — even royalty. While visiting Norway, Queen Farah Pahlavi of Iran tried the sport for the first time at an Oslo hotel. Her husband, the Shah of ...
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AN ARTISTIC APPROACH TO SKITTLE
German painter Eugen Urban used a realism approach in this political painting that featured bowling. A nude Lady Liberty stood on top of a bowling ball and towered over nine skittle pins representing ...
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BOWLERS-IN-CHIEF
Ever since the White House installed its first bowling alley in 1947, presidents, guests and staff have laced up their bowling shoes at the country’s most famous address. This postcard featured a coup ...
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BOWLING BEFORE THE BALLOT BOX
From political parties to bowling parties, this group enjoyed their visit at the Executive Office Building lanes in Washington, D.C. First Lady of the United States Lady Bird Johnson (left to right), ...
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BRINGING BOWLING TO LIFE
Editorial cartoonist William H. Walker produced artwork for Life magazine from 1894 to 1922. While many of his cartoons focused on political topics in America, he illustrated one in 1905 about the rev ...
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CAMPAIGN TRAIL PITSTOP
During a campaign stop in Seattle, Second Lady Muriel Humphrey took some time to unwind at a bowling alley. Her husband, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, was running as the Democratic nominee in the up ...
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KEGLERS CASH IN
Have you ever seen a bowler on a dollar? When Germany faced an economic crisis and currency shortage after World War I, cities printed their own form of emergency currency, known as “Notgeld.” Many no ...
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PINNING DOWN POLITICAL CARTOONS
Political cartoonists have incorporated bowling into their artwork for centuries. French artist Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville did so for this lithograph printed shortly after The June 1832 Rebellion ...
