Word: deweyitis
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...bristling mustache above a bone-stiff upper lip. The wind-up doll gestures. The suave delivery of platitudes in a deep and resonant voice. Those trademarks of Thomas Edmund Dewey came to symbolize a full decade of Republican Party frustration in the presidential politics of the 1940s. That is unfortunate, since Dewey was the prototype of all crusading young gangbusters in his 30s, a crisply efficient three-term Governor of New York in his 40s, and a premature but valued elder statesman of his party as early as his 50s. Nevertheless, he will be remembered chiefly...
...Thomas Dewey had mellowed in his later years. Teased about the fact that his dark hair was finally beginning to thin, he could pat a balding correspondent on the head and reply: "Who are you to talk, you old bastard?" Yet he could never completely shake his waxen image as "the bridegroom on the wedding cake." He was still widely remembered that way when he died last week of a heart attack after playing 18 holes of golf in the 90° heat of Bal Harbour, Fla., his favorite winter refuge. In another week he would have been...
...Crimson contingent of Nosal, Dewey Hickman, Tom Spengler, Jon Enscoe and assistant coach Ed Stowell was hamstrung by sickness. All but Nosal contracted colds...
...Dewey Hickman, running in the 60-yard hurdles, failed to advance beyond the quarterfinals. Hickman's best time of the season was 7.4, just barely qualifying him for the meet. According to teammate Rick Melvoin, Hickman was in Detroit "mostly for the experience...
Among the Harvard runners are Bailey Red in the 60-yard dash. Dewey Hickman in the hurdles. Bob Clayton in the 880, and Tom Spengler in the mile...