Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jeff Melvoin, covering his first campaign for TIME, recalls the sight of G. Carlton Snowe helping his daughter-in-law Olympia Snowe win a seat in Congress from Maine. Reports Melvoin: "A big, broad man with an easy outdoor manner, 'Carlie' greeted his neighbors as they came to vote. As I drove away in the bleak New England afternoon, his white hair made him easy to pick out: a large figure bundled up against the cold wind, with a warm word for each passerby, going the last mile for his daughter...
Kansas Republicans achieved the historic feat of sending the first woman to a full term in the Senate without any help from a husband's previous political career.* To be sure, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 46, did not hide the fact that she was 1936 Presidential Candidate Alf Landon's daughter, no handicap in Kansas despite Landon's humiliating loss to F.D.R. But she proved a candid and outgoing campaigner, and her fresh personality meshed neatly with the voters' yearnings for change. Her opponent, Democrat Bill Roy, a physician and lawyer, had run unsuccessfully for the Senate before and had been...
...something about his personality problem: "I announce that I will not be aloof, alone, remote, inaccessible and grouchy, or any of those things. Tonight I shall embark on a new campaign." He quickly left for a vacation in the Bahamas with Anne Ford Uzielli, the 35-year-old daughter of Henry Ford II, amid speculation the two would marry...
During his campaign, New York Governor Hugh Carey fended off questions about whether he would marry Anne Ford Uzielli, the divorced daughter of Henry Ford II, with the comment, "If I don't win, who will want me?" But in his victory speech he alluded to what he called "a new campaign." Mrs. Uzielli merely smiled at Widower Carey, who has twelve children. Said Carey later: "This one is not going to be quite so much uphill as I might expect." Said his chief political strategist, David Garth: "This is one campaign I haven't been asked...
...right-hand man for many years was Hamilton Holton "Holty" Wood, who was captain of the J.V. football team in 1939. Wood's maternal grandfather was one of the thirteen men who got together and donated the Yale Bowl. Wood's brother operated the Stadium's scoreboard and his daughter Ceelie Wood now types out the play-by-play charts for members of the press...