Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four times he failed-and before the last time former Governor Allan Shivers began to call him a "three-time loser." Last week Texas Liberal Yarborough, 53, took a fifth swing, this time at the 21-month, unexpired term in the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Price Daniel-who beat Yarborough for governor last year. Candidate Yarborough hit a home...
...onetime newspaper advertising salesman who bills himself as an Independent, Egan began his remarkable career in public service in 1953, when he quit taking unemployment compensation ($27.50 a week) and ran for mayor ($8,000 a year), beat his opponent by 3,000 votes. His big troubles started after he fired his police chief. The chief won reinstatement in court, later resigned. After that, with his four-man city council battling him all the way. Egan fired the new chief six times, was rebuffed by the courts all the way ("I fire him," Egan moaned helplessly, "but he keeps right...
Plunging into the Democratic primary with the St. Louis press behind him, Tucker beat down the solid opposition of the regular Democrats, triumphed over the machine candidate by a slim (1,500 votes) majority. A month later, with a solid phalanx of G.O.P. and Democratic friends and businessmen behind him, Ray Tucker beat his Republican opponent and became St. Louis' 38th mayor in a stunning (142,839-82,000) landslide...
Sacred Duty. Husky, blue-eyed Reporter Dubois, who wears unbreakable plastic spectacles as a precaution against manhandling, keeps his ears cocked for news leads by carrying a pocket radio wherever he goes. In nearly 30 years (ten for the Trib) on the banana-belt beat, he has developed an uncanny facility for guessing when and where a story will break. In Guatemala, where he reported as early as 1948 that the Arevalo regime was Communist-infiltrated, he arrived on the scene only hours before Castillo Armas' successful uprising broke out in 1954. New York-born Dubois speaks fluent Spanish...
...newsman's sacred duty to beat the censor," says Jules Dubois. He has used carrier pigeons, outgoing tourists and elaborately coded telephone calls to smuggle out his dispatches. He was about to be deported from Guatemala for violating censorship in the civil war when Castillo Armas entered the city. Fortunately for reporters, Castillo Armas was an old friend: he had studied under Colonel-Instructor Dubois during World War II in the U.S. Army's command and general staff school at Fort Leavenworth. Castillo Armas at once gave newsmen the run of the wires without censorship...