Word: coons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probable starters in the backfield are Mel Govig, a sharp-passing quarterback, halfbacks Marion Cheek and John Schereschewsky, and fullback George Nager. A tentative line has Ed Felton and Art Warren at the ends, Pete Morrison and Bainey Coon at the tackles, Art Ticknor and Thom Kahrl in the guard slots, and Reuben Gittes at center...
...especially if he had General Vaughan to deal from the bottom of the deck for him. If the contest were one of rolling the pork barrel, Senator Taft would be a good candidate to stake our lives on. If, on the other hand, we were to match Stalin in coon hunting, our man from Tennessee would be an excellent choice...
Senator Estes Kefauver is doubtless a worthy man. But when, on your cover of March 24, I saw that grin, under those horn rimmed specs, under that coonskin cap, with the coon's little tail adangling, I thought: heaven help us, is that a potential President of these United States? . . . Look at pictures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Jackson, Webster-any really great American. You don't see those men grinning as if life were a big haha...
...campaign organizations in each of the state's 95 counties, probably shook more hands than anyone in Tennessee political history, and nettled Mistah Crump into a roar that made Kefauver famous. "Kefauver," wrote Crump in full-page newspaper advertisements through the state, "reminds me of the pet coon that puts its foot in an open drawer in your room, but invariably turns its head while it is feeling around in the drawer...
Kefauver's retort was mild: "I may be a pet coon but I'll never be Mr. Crump's pet coon." A more imaginative friend clapped a coonskin cap on Kefauver's head at a luncheon rally. The gag grew until Kefauver eventually blossomed out in a coonskin cap haloed with electric lights. In the primary he polled 42,000 votes more than his nearest opponent...