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...Ahab or the Uneeda Biscuit boy. In New Hampshire, Kefauver cried: "I'm here to win." Later he explained: "I want to be President of the U.S. because I have great ambitions for our country." In the same spirit, he refused to pose for photographers in his familiar coonskin cap, saying that he has reluctantly scrapped it as his political symbol because "some people think it's a little undignified." Thrown behind schedule by handshakers at Portsmouth, Estes glowed, "Now I know why it's so pleasant to campaign in New Hampshire." Not so pleasant...
...candidate's flushed face wore a beatific smile. He elbowed his way through the pressing crowd in the Congressional Room of Washington's Willard Hotel, stepped onto a platform and picked up a coonskin cap. He put it on, took it off, waved it, put it back, took it off again, tossed it aside. He enthroned himself in a large chair in front of a head photograph of himself that measured five feet from groomed hair to fighting jaw. Then Estes Kefauver, in his familiar, prim drawl, began to read: "I have received much encouragement, particularly from...
Deep in the heart of Texas as a ranch guest of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Tennessee's prowling Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver showed that he can shoot as straight as Tennessee's Davy Crockett-even without his coonskin hat. Hunter Kefauver blasted at a duck with a shotgun, scored a clean miss...
Summer's heat waves proved too much for many a coonskin cap. but Davy Crockett has summer's sound waves well in hand. The Ballad of Davy Crockett with a flash sale of some 7,000,000 records seems on the way to the summit of non-seasonal sales.* Davy is undisputed King of the Wild Frontier in three cold-cash categories-Popular. Western and Kiddie...
Born in a taxicab in Tennessee, Slowest cab that you ever did see, Warmed up his bottle and he took him a nip - He didn't even leave the driver a tip! Davy, Davy Crewcut, the cat with the coonskin...