Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert F. Kennedy and William F. Buckley Jr. have much in common. They are both young, attractive, wealthy, Roman Catholic, of Irish descent and Ivy League background. Both married daughters of wealthy families and chose to spend their lives in politics (and related professions) rather than in merely enlarging the fortunes their industrious fathers gave them. Both are aggressive combatants...
Prairie Populists. The biggest factor in Humphrey's re-emergence is his unusually close personal rapport with L.B.J. Humphrey, 54, and Johnson, 57, are a pair of old prairie Populists with a common rural background, the instincts of teachers and a shared, lifelong devotion to the New Deal. When they arrived in the Senate on the same day in 1949, Humphrey was generally regarded as a brash young radical, a "black knight," as he puts it, intent on tilting against the senatorial establishment ruled by Democrat Richard Russell and Republican Robert Taft...
...Ouvrez la Bouche." By background and experience, blueblooded, boyishly handsome Jim Symington has unusual qualifications for the job-His father is Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, his mother the daughter of the late Senator James Wadsworth and granddaughter of Secretary of State John Hay. After Eastern schooling (Deerfield Academy, Yale and Columbia Law), he was deputy director of the Food for Peace program, later was a top assistant to Bobby Kennedy when he was Attorney General...
...SHOW. Against a background portrait of the grinning "Me Worry?" symbol, five cavorting performers convey a more or less Mad message through zany skits and impersonations. Thanks to the cast, the show is funnier than its material...
...harder heads than theirs will dictate the terms. The man advising them is J. William Hayes ("As you go through life," warns a weary Dodger official, "beware of a guy who has an initial for his front name"), a Hollywood gent who usually business-manages more professional actors. The background shows. Explaining why Sandy, with his better record, went in with Don on the parlay, J. William smoothly confides that "they figured the way to end all gossip about rivalry between them would be to go as an entry." The Dodgers know what he really means: a dual holdout means...