Word: californianism
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...Eddie Fisher and the Four Aces. By junior year in high school he was doing a teen program on Saturdays on the local radio station, and after a year at Georgia Teachers College, he plunged into radio full time. Seven years and four stations later, he teamed up with Californian Gene Chenault to go into the consulting business...
Ronald Reagan's reaction to defeat was not much different. Arriving back at his Deauville Hotel headquarters shortly after Richard Nixon had been nominated, the Californian was greeted by milling campaign workers, still carrying placards. The signs, different from those that had been hoisted a few hours before, read: "Reagan for President in 1972." The Governor's reaction: "Oh, for heaven's sake...
...Ease. A native Californian, Pauline Kael arrived in New York three years ago and landed a reviewing job on McCall's. She did not stay very long because of her unladylike way of dismissing certain movies with a karate chop of criticism. "I thought I'd last six months," she says. "I lasted five." She moved on to the more congenial New Republic, then switched to The New Yorker last winter. She has brought out two books of collected criticism, Lost It at the Movies and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Though she is now considered one of the country...
...right within the state party, Tommy Kuchel, 57, had also brought trouble on himself. In his 16 years in the Senate, Kuchel, appointed by Earl Warren in 1952 to fill out Richard Nixon's unexpired term, had entrenched himself as minority whip. With his bland, litigious mind, the Californian found a congenial environment in the clubbish Senate, but he was never very careful about looking after his political fences at home, where he was often more popular with Democrats than with Republicans. Nor did his refusal to support the campaigns of Barry Goldwater, Reagan and Murphy endear...
Reagan is not yet a serious danger to Nixon, but he might be if he can prove himself in the May 28 Oregon primary. Making the most of their leading man's telegenic appeal, the Reagan people are putting the Californian on the screen just as often as the White Knight -and nearly as often as the White Tornado. There are 20-second Reagan spots, 60-second plugs, five-minute shows, and a full half-hour program that contrasts Nixon's gubernatorial defeat in 1962 with Reagan's victory over the "unbeatable" Brown, an appellation that could...