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True enough, the character has often been caricatured. They call him "Irksome Dirksen." "the Wizard of Ooze," "the Liberace of the Senate," and "Oleaginous Ev." They claim that he was born with a golden thesaurus in his mouth, that he marinates his tonsils in honey. They say that he got his cornball ways from working for the Corn Products Refining Co. plant in Pekin. Ill., his home town, and that his felicity for hot air is a result of his stint as a World War I balloonist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Leader: Everett Dirkson | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...stars beyond, or I would lead them gently down a rustic road in Illinois. With words, I would lay bare the heart of a flower or pry open the fiery core of the atom that the Senate might appreciate the depth and breadth of the Senator from Illinois." Ev might have wished he'd said that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Leader: Everett Dirkson | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

South Shore Music Circus (Cohasset): telephone EV...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge and Environs | 8/20/1962 | See Source »

South Shore Music Circus (Cohasset): telephone EV...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge and Environs | 8/13/1962 | See Source »

South Shore Music Circus (Cohasset): telephone EV...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge and Environs | 8/6/1962 | See Source »

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