Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very dear friends" came in the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign of 1952. when Democratic Incumbent Paul A. Dever ("May God rest his soul") was being attacked by the Boston Post. Goldfine's simple effort: he extended a $400,000 line of credit to the paper's owner, capricious Boy Wonder John Fox, on condition that the Post make a last-minute switch to support Dever. (It did, but Dever lost anyway.) "I regarded it as a favor to the Governor." says Goldfine. "How could it be any other way? I gave...
...Country Boy. Judge Ward, sharp-eyed and expressive, left Warren folks cold. Standing on the courthouse steps, he announced only that he would be kicking off his campaign later in the day at Jonesboro (pop. 20,100), therefore had little to say about his platform. As he talked, Chris Finkbeiner threaded through the crowd and warmed...
...folks, Mama got kinda excited and she lost one of her gloves. Any of you find it, why I'd appreciate it kindly if you'd just give it to that lady there-that's my mother, folks." Murmured an onlooker: "Chris is a good oP boy, and Arkansas people like a man to be a good ol' boy. There's nobody can sound more country than Chris. He's a good oP boy." Plain Talker. Though good oP Chris Finkbeiner made hay in Warren, it was Lee Ward...
...hair stylists, who has turned more heads than a nation of Casanovas. From his headquarters in Paris, Antoine lays down the law for the 48 Antoine salons that are part of Seligman & Latz, the nation's largest beauty chain (292 salons). He is responsible for the page boy, the pompadour, the Italian cut, the tousle and the bubble bob, has just decreed for fall a "tousled-up Madame Reácamier" style (forehead fringe, slightly curled bouffant sides, and a high-rising back). Antoine's advice: "Try to achieve a look of artistic disorder...
...western that offers the customers little more than the chance to count sheep-with the predictable result that the picture is a 103-minute snore. The heroes are a Confederate veteran and his ailing son (played by Alan Ladd and his winsome, talented eleven-year-old son David). The boy saw his mother killed by Sherman's troops and was literally struck dumb at the sight. He and his father are wandering northward through what the script calls Illinois-actually a spectacular piece of Utah scenery-looking for a doctor who can restore the boy's speech, when...