Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign for him. Smart money gave him no better than third place in the eleven-man first primary. Odds-on favorite: Dry-Minded W. P. (Bill) Atkinson, 52, Midwest City millionaire builder and hand-picked candidate of incumbent Teetotaler Raymond Gary. Atkinson was shocked to see Newcomer Edmondson beat him in the primary, force a runoff with a tiny plurality of 427. Atkinson and the Gary machine fought wildly to catch up, but they could not match Edmondson's TV moxie or his nonstop attacks on Gary administration corruption. In last week's runoff, Edmondson brewed a high...
This blazed a clear trail for Mike Stepovich. Last week he announced his candidacy for Term B. There he will oppose grey former Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening, a Democrat Mike Stepovich may be able to beat...
...true fighter's determination to win. As a boy in the Louisiana marshes, he dropped his bird with the first shot. As a young schoolteacher, he asked for a school in Franklin Parish, where no teacher had lasted a term, and in the requisite number of recesses he beat his beefier charges into docility...
With school out, a scholarly, wide-eyed NBC trainee was down in Washington rubbing notebooks with the swift, sure newshands on the White House beat. The apprentice: TV Quiz Winner ($129,000) and Columbia University Instructor Charles Van Doren. His first report: "It's a little frightening...
...This Ain't the Blues (Jimmy Rushing & band; Vanguard). The indestructible Mr. Five-by-Five of the old Basie Band shouts some familiar blues and ballads-My Friend Mr. Blues, Pennies from Heaven-with a voice like a curdled trumpet backed by a solid boomp-a-cha beat. Jimmy sometimes wheezes now, but his talent for reading a message of ageless evil into the simplest of lyrics-"Sometimes I think I will/Then again I think I won't" -is as strong as it ever...