Word: artemus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, Lyndon Johnson suffers from one further problem: Lyndon Johnson. "The prevailing weakness of most public men is to slop over," Humorist Artemus Ward wrote a century ago. "G. Washington never slept over." The pun aside, Ward stated a problem that has plagued the President all along, and now threatens to overshadow his truly impressive domestic record. He does slop over. He speaks-or preaches-with the accents of the Depression in an age of prosperity. His rustic reminiscences seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban electorate. At 58, Johnson is roughly midway in age between Bobby Kennedy...
...major corporations have such unusual management. Four brothers, sons of Founder William M. Davis, run Winn-Dixie as a team. James Elsworth Davis, 56, is chairman, and Artemus Darius Davis, 57, president; both maintain modest offices in the company's headquarters at Jacksonville, Fla., where they are known as Mr. J. E. and Mr. A. D. Brother Austin Davis, 52, is executive vice president in Miami, and Tine Davis, 49, has the same title in Montgomery. Each has an equal say in management and draws the same "salary" (one-half percent of pre-tax profits, less $25,000, which...
...titles, Vail shares command with his father, Attorney Herman Vail, who was named president earlier this year. But he has complete control over the editorial operation, which some staffers complain has been neglected in recent years. Once known as the lively showcase for Charles Farrar Brown's humorous "Artemus Ward" columns, the Plain Dealer lately has grown stodgy enough to be described as "grandmotherly." Vail aims to shuck that adjective...
...Kennedy jokes flowed on. "For all I have been reading for the last three, four or five months about the great conservative revival that is sweeping the U.S.," he told an exuberant meeting of Young Democrats in Miami, "I thought that perhaps no one was going to show up. Artemus Ward once said, about 50 years ago, 'I am not a politician and my other habits are good also.' " Arriving in Bal Harbour, Fla., for the annual convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., he greeted Big Labor's leaders with a casual weather report: "It's warmer...
...calling little Miles Standish "Captain Shrimp." Between Thomas Morton and Morton Sahl, most political satirists shielded themselves with pseudonyms and fought with fairly heavy steel. Charles Farrar Browne, city editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, set himself up in mid-19th century as the cracker-box philosopher Artemus Ward, announced that the D.C. after Washington stood for "Desprit Cusses," and advised President Lincoln to fill his Cabinet with show-business types since they would know how to cater to the public. Mark Twain was often deserted by his light touch when he contemplated politics, though he contributed a pair...