Word: clem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year, doctors decided that the U.S. public was not judging the A.M.A. on the merits o.f its case, but was taking sides for or against Fishbein. So the A.M.A dumped Dr. Fishbein (TIME, June 20) and hired a firm of San Francisco pressagents, Clem Whitaker and his wife Leone Baxter, to run its "National Education Campaign" against the Truman-Ewing program. Doctors have found it an expensive war: Whitaker & Baxter (for a fee of $100,000 a year) are spending $2,000,000 a year to counter the effects of Ewing's tax-supported propaganda. This year...
Like many another middle-class British family back in the '30s, Mr. & Mrs. Clement Attlee liked to spend their weekends getting away from it all in the family car. When Clem's duties permitted, a trim 1936 Hillman sedan whisked them away from the cares of Parliament and the chores of suburban housekeeping, with comely, curly-haired Violet Attlee at the wheel, her husband tucked in beside her in the front seat and the back well-stocked with picnic fare...
...once more behind the wheel of her vintage Hillman, as Britain's Prime Minister set out on an eight-day tour to put Labor's case before the voters a second time. As always, modest, attractive Mrs. Attlee was, in the words of a friend, "quietly piloting Clem, although Clem still sits in the front seat." A suitcase was packed, gas coupons checked, road maps ready and Clem's knees were snugly wrapped in a woolen blanket as Violet swung the Hillman's nose out of Downing Street toward Watford, 17½ miles to the north...
...Watford, Clem made a quarter-hour speech and the Hillman collected the first of the many bouquets that were soon to fill its back seat. From Watford the Attlee's road led to Wolverton and thence to Coventry. At each town border, local police escorts were waiting to pick up the Hillman...
...Best & the Worst. By the fifth day, Violet had driven 700 miles and Clem had made 18 speeches. By the time the Attlees reach Downing Street once more they will have covered some 1,500 miles. Friends were not sure whether Violet Attlee wants this tour, like the last, to end in Buckingham Palace. Some thought that maybe she would rather drive the Hillman into the neat garage of the Attlee's cozy new home, Cherry Cottage, in Buckinghamshire...