Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wallace, a onetime state Golden Gloves featherweight champion ("The Barbour Bantam"), campaigned on a segregationist platform that seemed extreme even by Alabama standards. The federal judiciary, he claimed, is "lousy and irresponsible." U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., who once ordered voting records turned over to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, was an "integrating, scalawagging, carpetbagging liar." Promising that he would refuse to obey "any order to mix races in our schools," Wallace offered to "stand in the schoolhouse door," and, if need be, go to jail before permitting integration. To suggestions that his position might be too strong...
...investigation provides some fascinating footnotes. Major James Devereux, the gallant U.S. Marine Corps defender of Wake, did not send the famed message: SEND US MORE JAPS. The message was idly tapped out by an unknown signalman. Nor did the U.S.S. Houston sink four Japanese transports off Java's Bantam Bay. They were actually torpedoed in error by the Japanese cruiser Mikuma, Toland reveals. General Imamura assumed that the Houston was responsible, and his chief of staff was too embarrassed to contradict...
...that? Drew pictures, and all that. As it turned out. Eve has to crouch in the hollow of that tree from the beginning of the ballet until it's time for her to slip from Adam's rib." As danced by San Francisco's exuberant, youthful bantam ballet company, Original Sin is emotional as well as entertaining...
...wall scratch-in history (41 first-ballot votes for Meyner), but lost his high hopes for a Cabinet job. "I want my 25 minutes on television," Meyner confessed in a moment of greater vanity than wisdom. "I'm entitled to it." Herschel Loveless, Iowa's Golden Bantam Governor and favorite son, who withdrew to support Kennedy, warned a pack of restless Iowa delegates: "You go for Stevenson, and you're dead." Husked back one delegate: "You're looking at a bunch of corpses." Final count from Iowa: 21½ votes for Kennedy, 1½ for Loveless...
...wife of Hollywood Producer Jack Cummings). "After all, the songs are no good in a bureau drawer." It was possible, too, suggested his longtime collaborator, P. G. Wodehouse, that the melodies-until now heard only by a handful of people-would turn out to be something less than Golden Bantam Kern...