Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture must have given many a page-flipper pause. Spread across two pages of the Paris weekly Elle were the faces of 70 women. At first glance they might have been graduates of the Cordon Bleu cookery school, characters in a police line-èup, culture seekers at the Sorbonne, or simply guests at an unaccountably manless cocktail party. The truth was much more improbable. They were working novelists...
...shrewd and professional campaign was almost entirely a one-man (and a woman) show: Neuberger made all the decisions, wrote most of the press releases, planned all the attacks. In the first phase of his campaign he told Oregonians, in shocked, evangelistic tones and in endless reiteration, that Cordon was a sinister reactionary who took tidelands oil away from their children's mouths, gave away dams and power lines to private utilities, tried to wreck Eisenhower's foreign policy and opposed everything from cancer research to free school lunches. The voters were impressed...
Neuberger spent his campaign funds wisely. Instead of using up a lot of money on a few half-hour TV shows, as Cordon did, Neuberger bought hundreds of one-minute radio spots, which poured from the Oregon airwaves. Journalist Neuberger knew just how to deal with the press. Although all but three of Oregon's 21 dailies were committed to Cordon, Dick managed to get a remarkable amount of space. Every night his nimble fingers typed out releases on his twelve-year-old Royal portable for delivery just in time for deadlines to city rooms around the state...
Having established Cordon as a villain, Neuberger moved into the second phase, in mid-September, with his own campaign promises. With Maurine driving a rented blue Ford, the Neubergers traveled to every nook and corner of the state, to Philomath, Gold Beach, Madras, Looking glass, Yachats, Yoncalla, Bonanza, Cornucopia, Garibaldi, Grande Ronde, Depot Bay, and even to Sisters and Fossil. Wherever possible they stayed with local citizens, and Dick invariably managed to establish a personal identification with his audiences ("As my close friend Amos Buck of the Butchers' Union knows . . ."). With his sloppy green corduroy jacket and his pleasantly...
...Cordon, a behind-the-scenes politician who hates to make speeches and loathes publicity, was a feeble amateur by comparison. He spent just one 1954 day in Oregon before September, and never succeeded in getting his campaign off the ground...