Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Always a candid confesser when he was caught, Ferdinand never reasonably explained why he could not be satisfied with his own identity; yet he always played his roles with urbane authority and considerable skill. Thus, while most of his neighbors in North Haven thought that "Godgart" was a little strange, they thoroughly liked him. It was his closest North Haven friend, Schoolteacher William Hopkins, who became suspicious enough of Ferdinand-especially after he gave Hopkins and his wife a captionless LIFE photo of himself-to supply Maine police with a set of Ferdinand's fingerprints taken from a beer...
There was nothing to alarm anybody in Martin's testimony, taken by itself; like Humphrey he was just suggesting that it was time to think about the future. But at a Washington dinner given by the Citizens' Committee for the Hoover Report came a candid, grandfatherly rumble from a man whose very name has been used by Democrats for years to frighten Prosperity's babies. Warned ex-President Herbert Hoover: "Secretary Humphrey says that unless we change some of our ways, we will see 'a depression that will curl your hair.' Mine has already been...
...Young Stranger. A teenager's candid-camera view of parental delinquency in his family, compellingly played by James MacArthur, James Daly, Kim Hunter (TIME...
Slander (MGM) takes a candid peep into the keyhole press, which in recent years has made a multimillion-dollar business out of character assassination. On the face of it, the picture is just Hollywood's way of swatting one of its more irritating fleas: most of the people who have been smeared by the scandal magazines are movie stars. But in a deeper sense the moviemakers have served the public too. For in the pursuit of the principal villain they also take a swipe or two at his accomplices-at the readership which settles in cloudlike millions...
...Young Stranger. A teen-ager's candid-camera view of his father's parental delinquency; compellingly played by James MacArthur. James Daly, Kim Hunter (TIME...