Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MASSACHUSETTS' JOHN MCCORMACK, 67, was elected Democratic floor leader the same month -September, 1940 -that Mister Sam became Speaker (during the two Republican Congresses since then, Rayburn became floor leader, McCormack Democratic whip). Boston-born John McCormack, a cigar-munching teetotaler, was left fatherless at 13, shined shoes, ran errands, earned his way through night law school, was elected to the House in 1928. He is a hard-knuckled politician from one of the hardest knuckled of all political schools: Massachusetts' Twelfth Congressional District. More than half Irish, the Twelfth takes in ten dingy, crowded...
...South Boston wards and is, says a local politico, a "district that demands service." It gets service from Roman Catholic John McCormack: the Twelfth probably has more public housing than any other U.S. congressional district. Childless, devoted to his wife Harriet (he can boast that in 39 years of marriage they have never missed dinner together, whether at public banquet or in fireside privacy), McCormack too is, in effect, wedded to the House. Heir apparent to Rayburn, leader of the New England Democratic bloc, grey, sharp-featured John McCormack is, in his own words, his party's "field general...
...sensation of the young indoor track season is a lanky, 17-year-old Boston University freshman named John Thomas. Unheralded and almost unnoticed as the more spectacular racing events swirled around the track, Thomas broke the world's indoor record for the high jump twice in the last three weeks. This week in the Millrose Games at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Thomas will pit his new 6 ft. 11¾ in. indoor record against Outdoor Champion Charlie Dumas, who holds the U.S. outdoor record...
...towering (6 ft. 4¼ in.) son of a hefty Negro bus driver, Thomas grew up in Boston, and he is still growing. He weighs 185 Ibs. now, should get up to 215 in five years. Key to the Thomas style is the powerful spring in his left heel, developed by hours of lying on his back and hoisting 350-lb. weights with his legs. Approaching the bar from the left at a 37° angle, he takes seven progressively longer strides -then brakes hard on his left heel. He springs off the heel, kicks mightily with the right foot...
...What bothers him most is pre-jump nervousness. "The moment I fear is just standing there waiting to go." He used to cover his ears as the loudspeaker announced the jump he was about to attempt. When he broke his own record in the Knights of Columbus meet in Boston (where he first ran the hurdles -"It loosens me up"), Thomas did it during the climax of the big mile race. With all eyes on Miler Ron Delany, Thomas quietly soared to unmatched heights...