Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GILBERT F. DONNELLY Cleveland...
Gradually, frontier lustiness was replaced by a Victorian sense of decorum and a growing belief at least in the surface dignity of politics. Politicians had to be more careful. Shortly after Grover Cleveland received the Democratic presidential nomination in 1884, a newspaper revealed that he had been supporting an illegitimate child for several years. Distraught party leaders asked him what to do. "Tell the truth," he doughtily replied. The truth scarcely satisfied Republicans, who improvised several more scandals about Cleveland and made the most of a campaign ditty: "Ma, ma, where's our pa? Gone to the White House...
...might act in a major crisis. The bizarre and ugly rumors that have arisen since Mary Jo's death are deplorable and, for the most part, almost certainly untrue. Innocent as Ted Kennedy might be in that respect, he can be faulted for not following Grover Cleveland's example: tell the whole truth. His carefully prepared and yet unsatisfying explanation leaves room for the suspicion that he was somehow trying to escape blame for his actions. When a woman threatened to write about her liaison with the Duke of Wellington, he retorted: "Publish and be damned...
N.F.L. PRE-SEASON GAME (CBS, 6 p.m. to conclusion). The Cleveland Browns, Eastern Conference champions, meet the San Francisco 49ers in Seattle...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK cuts up about the period of marital adjustment in Warwick, N.Y., through Aug. 10; Salem, Va., Aug. 19-23; Cleveland Musicarnival, Aug. 18-23, with Virginia Graham; New London, N.H., Aug. 18-24; North Tonawanda, N.Y., Aug. 25-30; and Wallingford, Conn., Sept...