Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maine, the whole state is talking about the Jones boy. Young (32), brash Robert L. Jones, once a big noise in the state Young Republican organization, announced that he will run against U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith in the Republican primary next June. Most political observers are less interested in Candidate Jones than in the man they believe is behind him: Joe McCarthy. The Wisconsin Senator has neither forgotten nor forgiven Senator Smith's 1950 "declaration of conscience" attacking McCarthy's methods. Last November, when McCarthy spoke in Bangor and Portland, Jones was at his side...
...from channel to channel until he found a newscast. Again Joe heard the statement put out a few hours before at the White House by his latest victim. Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens, with the "100% approval" of the President of the U.S. The Senator heard his own brash characterization of the Stevens statement as "completely false." He waved...
...with his boundless vigor and good health, his steel nerve, brash confidence and the support of the vast majority of his people, Ramon Magsaysay was one man who was not afflicted with doubts or fears. "The people," he vowed, "will have their...
...Army's basic training, was filmed to the tune of a flag-waving theme song (Take the high ground and hold it! Tho' you face eternity . . .). The raw recruits who are to be turned into soldiers include such familiar characters as the bragging Texan, the brash college boy, the sensitive Negro and the weakling. Happily, the picture spares moviegoers another movie version of the Brooklynite. Richard Widmark barks his way through the role of the tough sergeant, and a curious attempt is made to give him an extra dimension by having him quote from Edna St. Vincent Millay...
Featured in the cast are Robin Homet '54 as Tommy Turner, the bewildered English professor; Pirie M. Tuchings '54 as Joe Ferguson, the big brash football hero; Tom Gaydos '54 as Ed Keller; Wendy Goodell as Ellen Turner and Lucy Barry as Patricia Turner. Director will be Ted Gershuny '54 and Peter L. Shoup '55 will produce the show...