Word: californianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piloted T.W.A. for a year until falling out with Hughes last December; since then, Chairman Warren Lee Pierson has acted as president, and T.W.A., with no firm, clear-cut leadership, lost $14 million in the first five months of 1958. To pull up T.W.A., Hughes picked an old airman. Californian Thomas climbed into the air as a World War I Navy aviator, bossed the big Foreman & Clark men's clothing chain from 1937 to 1953, was G.O P. national finance chairman until he resigned last week. As Navy Secretary, he sped the fleet into the age of seaborne missile...
Yesterday marked the return of Dale Junta to the line-up, but it wasn't the same Junta who sparked the upset of Presbyterian last year. Still suffering from a back injury, the big Californian was unable to cope with John Brownlow's powerful serve and generally strong game. Although Junta showed flashes of his old form, Brownlow played consistently and won fairly easily...
...this spare, direct first novel by a 25-year-old Californian, the members of the triangle are less interesting than the author's skill at triangulation. The draftee hero is clean-cut enough to be a sidekick of Frank Merriwell. The girl is sweet enough to grace a soap ad. And the bedeviled antagonist is the victim of an unconscious drive that makes him pathetic rather than villainous. Yet this is the kind of book that demands to be read at one sitting: the people may not be important, but their story...
...from Washington. Many a GOPolitico is convinced that the President is no longer an asset. Said a top-ranking Colorado Republican last week: "The President will always have some popularity, but if I were a candidate, I wouldn't want to tie myself to his coattails." Added a Californian: "Ike hinders us today. His speech was a step in the right direction, but he could help us a great deal more. He's never seemed to care too much about patronage and things like that." Said a ranking Wisconsin Republican: "Let's face...
First, Angelenos don't like Walter O'Malley's shenanigans. When he won the mineral rights to Chavez Ravine, he lost the unquestioning trust which the sport-shirted Southern Californian bon vivant gave to open classification baseball...