Word: ev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year, when the Ev and Charlie Show was going great guns and Sen. Barry Goldwater admitted that some of the finest men in Phoenix were card-carrying John Birchers, a group of Young Republicans at Harvard burned some elderly elephant ears with the publication of a new magazine, called Advance. Working out of the notorious third floor of Quincy House (Cambridge's perpetual smoke-filled room) these "progressive Republicans" took enough well-aimed pot shots at the entrenched G.O.P. leadership to win them widespread praise, especially from beleaguered liberals in their own party...
Melliferous Ev...
...mother, a hardy woman who had helped build the wood-frame Second Reformed (Calvinist) Church with her own hands, set her boys to work. On their 1½ acres, they grew berries, lettuce, radishes, turnips and onions. They had cows, hogs, chickens and 15 stands of bees. Ev delivered milk to customers, sold eggs and vegetables. "There was a certain ruggedness about life," he recalls. "And a certain ruggedness in living that life." There was church on Sundays, followed by Sunday school, followed by a meeting of the young people's Christian Endeavor (a Bible group that elected Ev...
Princess & Politics. Dirksen and Ropp produced two other notable theatricals. One was a one-act allegory called The Slave with Two Faces, in which Ev cavorted on stage wearing a ram's-head mask, black socks, short black tights and nothing else. "I remember thinking," recalls one witness, "that the party lines would be buzzing tomorrow." The other was Percy MacKaye's A Thousand, Years Ago, in which Ev played a pulsating lover panting after the charms of the Princess of Pekin. He won her, of course-and he kept he, for the "princess" was played...
...announced for city finance commissioner in 1926 and won. Four years later, he decided to run against Peoria's incumbent Republican Congressman, William E. Hull. One key issue: the importation to the U.S. of blackstrap molasses, a vital question for Pekin's corn-processing and distillery businesses. Ev lost, but on the day after election he began campaigning for the 1932 primaries. He castigated Hull for voting for a bill that would have strengthened the enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment. In whisky-making places like Peoria and Pekin. Hull was finished, and Dirksen...