Word: bandwagons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Ohio, he was a political nobody-a bookkeeper who, in 1936, had slipped in as state auditor on the tail gate of the Roosevelt bandwagon. He had almost no backing from the regular Democratic organization. He did have a following of state employees, auditors and examiners, and he rarely if ever forgot a name or a face. He had organized and supported a Columbus softball team named "Ferguson's Auditors," and annually he mailed out 150,000 Christmas cards bearing photographs of his handsome wife and their growing family of eight children...
...Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Joseph Talbot of Naugatuck (Yale LL.B. '25), another old school politico who was picked partly because he was, like McMahon, a Roman Catholic. Big and old-shoe friendly, Talbot toured the state in a blue-and-yellow sound truck emblazoned: "No red on my bandwagon," and accused Democrats of being naive about Communists...
...China stable, Communists were explaining more or less frankly how they had stolen the horse. During the '30s and '40s they had fraudulently advertised Mao Tse-tung and his Chinese Communists as being harmless agrarian reformers -and liberals at home and abroad had rushed for the Red bandwagon. Last week the U.S. Communist Party monthly Political Affairs revealed what Mao himself really thought about liberals; from the July 7 Bombay (India) weekly Crossroads it reprinted an English translation of a little essay Mao had written for the Chinese party...
Today's teen-agers turned out to be less impressed by the past than by the present. Only 33% of them picked their heroes & heroines from history. (Franklin Roosevelt had passed Washington and Lincoln in this department, though Clara Barton still led among girls.) The real bandwagon movement (37% of the votes) is to contemporary stars of screen, sport, radio and the comics, Averill found. Tops among the heroes in these fields: Outfielder Ted Williams, Hollywood's Gene Autry, Esther Williams and Betty Grable, the comic-strip hero Joe Palooka...
Manhattan recording studios last week were rocking to the loose-jointed two-beat tempo of slap bass and honkytonk piano, the syncopated blast of gutbucket trumpet, tailgate trombone and high-flying clarinet. The record industry, with a gleaming eye on a trend, was climbing back aboard the Dixieland bandwagon...