Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Connecticut politics, everybody knows that Governor John Lodge yearns to move from Hartford back to Washington (where he was born and where he served as a Republican Congressman, 1947-1951). Twice this year, the governor has had a chance to run for U.S. Senator; twice he has stifled his hankering and insisted that he must finish his four-year gubernatorial stint...
...first chance arose last spring, when the party had to pick a candidate for the seat held by the Democrats' William Benton, who is up for re-election this fall. With Lodge declining, the Republicans nominated Manufacturer (hardware) William Purtell. Then, last July, came the death of Connecticut's other Democratic Senator, Brien McMahon. After a soul-searching vacation in the Virgin Islands, Lodge returned to Hartford, again declared he was not a candidate. He promised a free and open convention (i.e., he would remain neutral) to choose a nominee...
...Connecticut Democrats also nominated a candidate to run for McMahon's unexpired term: Hartford Congressman Abraham A. Ribicoff. The able, earnest son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, Ribicoff, who is 42, came out of University of Chicago Law School in the Depression, built a successful practice, went into politics, served four years in the state legislature, was elected to Congress in 1948 and again in 1950, running well ahead of the rest of his ticket. No razzle-dazzle campaigner, he prides himself on his stick-to-the-issues plainness, his visits by Ford convertible among voters everywhere in the state...
...show opens with a five-minute news summary, followed by sport results, a nationwide weather rundown ("People in New York seem to want to know whether it's raining in Omaha"), and an interview with a guest who may be a fashion designer or a Connecticut tobacco grower. Finally, there is a twelve-minute news package delivered by Garroway, Jim Fleming and Jack Lescoulie ("We have three commentators-no waiting"). The second hour of Today is pretty much a repeat of the first, and a third hour, off the air in the East, is telecast to the later-rising...
...Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean and hard as the rocky Connecticut land he farms. His daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs. and stands 5 ft. n, "a big, rough, ugly cow of a woman." Landlord Jim Tyrone is "misbegotten" in the catalogue of Sigmund Freud; he has an Oedipus complex...