Word: chandlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who cheered and hollered, it hardly mattered that Wallace had yet to put forth a platform-or even hint at his vice-presidential running mate. A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, the former Governor and Senator from Kentucky, was about to be anointed last week, but his relatively moderate record on race proved too much for key Wallace men. A press conference to announce the choice was put off, and Wallace said he would decide on a Veep "when the spirit moves me." Chandler, now 70, was undismayed. "I wouldn't change my position if I could," he said...
...press." ("There are more of us than there are of them.") This week he will take his campaign to Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri, stopping off in Washington, D.C., to announce his choice for a vice-presidential running mate. The man most frequently mentioned: the irrepressible A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, 70, former Kentucky Governor (1935-39 and 1955-59) and Senator (1939-45) and onetime commissioner of baseball...
...ballad was the work of KRLA's "staff poet-singer," Len Chandler, who regularly performs his own tendentious commentary to the most dramatic news of the hour. Chandler's verses are just one of the innovations by the staff of KRLA Station Manager John Barrett, 35, which have given an otherwise ordinary rock station a young audience of more than 1,500,000 and put it in the top three among the 61 stations jamming the metropolitan Los Angeles airwaves...
Assassins Don't Shout. Chandler, a Negro, customarily accompanies himself on the guitar and pretapes other instruments when he needs them. Among the subjects he has hymned in his two months...
...Chandler's daily composition-he gets Saturday and Sunday off, barring a major newsbreak-takes him about two hours. Once, on deadline at the time of Helen Keller's death, he wrote a dirge in 15 minutes. "I read the news every morning," he sums up in one ballad, "and I sing the blues every...