Word: californianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were moseying around the state last week, setting up barricades for the inevitable shouting that will break out when Governor Goodwin Knight defends his job against tall-in-the-saddle U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland next year. Somebody is bound to get hit, and one somebody might be fellow Californian Richard Nixon. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Coming Attraction...
...182Pretty Patricia McCormick, winner of both Olympic gold medals for women's diving, won her final and most important prize as an amateur. For the outstanding contribution to amateur sportsmanship during 1956, the acrobatic Californian now a pro, got the Sullivan trophy...
Abiding Passion. Piloting Continental is President Robert Six, 49, a burly Californian who is not only a Man of Distinction (1947) for Calvert whisky but for Ethel Merman, his musicomedienne (Happy Hunting) wife. With a Westerner's derring-do, Six has dabbled in oil wells, uranium and chemicals, hunts elk in Colorado, backs shows on Broadway (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
Many Washingtonians thought that Bill Knowland, in pushing on his path of logic, had managed to make a little headway toward a possible political goal: edging out his fellow Californian Dick Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960.* Politicking or not, Knowland had built up a position that was likely to make him more friends than enemies. It would appeal to 1) the conservative Republicans, who instinctively trust and admire Knowland and have mistrusted the U.N. from the start, and 2) the once-trusting U.N. partisans who have lost faith in the U.N. since its vote against Britain, France...
...fast-talking, matinee idolish Democrat Richard Richards. Last week Tom Kuchel walloped Richard Richards by more than 400,000 votes. The size of his victory indicated that he had won on his own, not on Ike's coattails. And it contradicted the maxim of latter-day fellow Californian Leo Durocher, who once said positively: "Nice guys finish last...