Word: alls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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(See Cover) Behind wailing police sirens, a cream-colored Cadillac sped into Abbeville, La. from the dusty airport, rolled on past the white-columned courthouse, and pulled up in front of the Candlelight Restaurant. Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington unfolded his long (6 ft. 2 in., 183 lbs.), well...
Meanwhile, Symington's strategy is to race while seeming to drift. He plans to delay any announcement of his candidacy until well along in 1960. Aware that Jack Kennedy could trounce him in mano a mano popularity contests, Symington is determined to stay out of primaries, and to do...
For all his reading, young Symington was an indifferent student in both high school and college days. A stubborn refusal to take a required mathematics course kept him from getting his Yale A.B. with the rest of his class in 1923 (Yale finally relented and gave him his degree 22...
Early in life, Stu manifested the luck that was to stay with him over the years. He totally escaped the eye affliction, deterioration of the retina, that has given all three of his brothers faint vision. While playing tag in the framework of an unfinished house at age 9, he...
"Absolutely Relentless." After killing off SPA, Truman named Symington Assistant Secretary of War for Air. When the Air Force split off from the Army in the defense reorganization of 1947, Symington became the first Air Force Secretary. Like all strong Air Force partisans, he had fought fiercely for a strong...