Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jenkins was about to go to court in a case involving a barking dog* when he was called to Washington to handle the case involving Joe McCarthy. An old acquaintance, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, had suggested him for the job. After the call came, Ray broke the news to Partners Erby and Aubrey Jenkins (brothers, but no kin to Ray) with the preface: "The most fantastic thing has happened...
...Annoyed by the dog's barking at night, a Tennessean had fired his shotgun into the master's bedroom...
...pass one another, en route, all unknowing, I wonder; one of us spry-eyed, with clean, white lectures and a soul he could call his own, going buoyantly west to his remunerative doom in the great state university factories; another returning dog-eared as his clutch of poems and his carefully typed impromptu asides? I ache for us both. There one goes, unsullied as yet, in his Pullman pride, toying-oh, boy!-with a blunderbuss bourbon, being smoked by a large cigar, riding out to the wide open spaces of the faces of his waiting audience...
...Dogs & Cats. At dinner parties-where he may nibble nothing but the lemon slice on a filet-Bidault sometimes amuses himself by classifying each guest as "dog" or "cat." He insists he is "dog," but many others-including Madame Bidault-would classify Georges Bidault as "cat." He has a catlike walk, a heavy-lidded, sleepy, catlike look, and a catlike smile. In politics and diplomacy he walks fences with a cat's tread, pounces like a tiger on a succulent opportunity...
Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a completely wacky shaggy-dog story; with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre (TIME, March...