Word: drawling
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...boosters for the vice-presidential nomination). Two presidential primaries showed clearly how the New Hampshire housewife felt about Kefauver. Professional Southern politicians dislike him intensely-but even they admit that Southern voters by the thousands are likely to fall hard for Kefauver's poor-mouthed Southern drawl...
...presidential nomination. But he is relatively young, and there are other years and other elections. The chances are good that Iowa farmers, New Hampshire lumberjacks and California avocado growers will some day be confronted again by the tall man with the outstretched right hand and the quiet drawl: "Ah'm Estes Kefauver. Ah'm running for President and Ah need your...
...Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this made more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
...head the agency, World Bank President Eugene Black (TIME, June 25) tapped one of his own top lieutenants, Mississippi-born Robert L. (for Livingston) Garner, 61, who still talks in a deep Southern drawl, despite his 37 years as a Northern banker-businessman (vice president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., General Foods Corp. and, since 1947, the World Bank). Garner's IFC starts with a fund of $78.4 million, hopes to prove that private enterprise in underdeveloped countries pays off, attract other investors who might normally be wary of investing in backward lands...
...James Lock & Co., suits from Savile Row's Henry Poole), an amusing storyteller, a man of omnivorous tastes, who sums up his chief delights (besides Shakespeare) as "the four Bs-banking, baseball, Balzac and bourbon." As he makes his rounds, he speaks in an irretrievable Southern drawl, mixes so well that he charms people no matter how anti-banker or anti-American they are apt to be. Once, at a state dinner given by Marshal Tito, the conversation through interpreters was dragging badly when Tito, rotundly resplendent in his dress uniform, asked Black if he might...