Word: deverism
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...smaller store sales, and presumably the money that visiting butter-and-egg conventioneers or traveling salesmen might spend on tours and girls. Overlooked was the probability that most of the businessmen made their visit anyway the minute the strike had ended. "What can you say about a strike," says DeVer Sholes, the association's director of research and statistics, "except that they're striking? But the news media are anxious to build up the story, so you have to fluff it up some...
Next year bitter primary fights will almost certainly weaken the party's chances in contests for attorney general, senator, and governor. Not since the legendary strong-man leadership of the late Governor Paul Dever has the party been spared from ruinous infighting...
Tragically, this leadership has not been forth-coming. It is estimated that Kennedy controls over 800 votes at the Democratic preprimary convention; if he were to use these votes and his well-known fund-raising ability wisely, he could, like Governor Dever before him, insure that the Democratic party goes into every election united behind its strongest possible ticket. And yet, whether from fear that his image will be damaged or that some of his supporters will leave him, he has refused to mix in state politics. His party has suffered as a result...
...opening of the National Horse Show in New York. Once the private preening ground for Manhattan's well-groomed society thoroughbreds, this year's show was as well attended as ever, but by a somewhat different breed. Except for a few perennials, Society Columnist Joseph Dever noted that "society was conspicuously missing. On the normally chic north side, we counted less than two dozen white ties, and fash ion photogs were left with surplus film on their hands ... It looks like the National is being taken over by the real horse lovers...
...short story, a not particularly interesting offering by novelist Joseph Dever, has the sort of pointless quality which suggests an assignment prepared for a course in creative writing...