Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...created here as a gabby, to-hell-with-the-consequences liberal . . . Hubert Humphrey is still a pretty glib and cocky fellow, who looks like a cross between Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Cagney, but the Senate has amended its opinion of him upward in the last six years." Democratic Elder Stateswoman Eleanor Roosevelt said that Humphrey comes closest of all top Democratic presidential possibilities to having that "spark of greatness" that the next U.S. President will need.* And from California's Congressman James Roosevelt came word that Mother knows best...
...Wang Chi-yang, Flower Drum Song's venerable elder, likes the feel of money and distrusts outside financial institutions, so do Rodgers and Hammerstein. Where other producers more often than not must hunt down angels, R. & H. have the problem of fighting off outside investors, mostly use their own capital or that of family members and close friends. And they go about their business with Confucian calm; voices are virtually never raised at an R. & H. rehearsal, except in song...
...part of the legacy of Gardner Cowles Sr., onetime school superintendent with a talent for real estate, who founded the family empire in 1903 by paying $300,000 for the faltering Des Moines Register & Leader. After World War I, when the Midwest wanted no truck with foreign alliances, the elder Cowles backed the League of Nations, argued that Iowa's crop surpluses meant that the state would inevitably be entangled with nations abroad. John and Gardner ("Mike") Cowles expanded to new monopoly in Minneapolis during the early '40s, effectively ran the family enterprise for a decade before their...
Spry enough to savor a Texas-style barbecue, although no longer up to striking the daily "blow for liberty"-as a concession to the years, he manfully abandoned bourbon and stogies six weeks ago -weatherbeaten Elder Statesman John Nance Garner, longtime (1903-32) Texas Congressman, two-term (1933-41) Vice President, spruced up in a new blue suit and his old battered Stetson for a misty-eyed celebration of his goth birthday. On hand for the doings: some 3,000 of the home folks in dusty Uvalde, a loyal guard of political cronies, including ex-President Harry Truman, House Speaker...
Lyndon Johnson was on his LBJ Ranch in Texas answering telephone calls from newly elected Democrats, greeting visitors, wheeling and dealing as the Democratic Party's leader-in-action. Pat Brown, who needs to get himself known outside California, was off on a get-acquainted tour, visiting such elder Democrats as Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman and Harry Truman. Stu Symington was vacationing in Puerto Rico; his strategy has been to keep quiet and let his competitors knock one another off. And Jack Kennedy was campaigning in Alaska-just as he has been campaigning ever since 1956 in a marathon...