Word: fessing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prototype of a class of pragmatic, nondoctrinaire, problem-solving Republicans who came to the forefront after the 1964 debacle. Before television, keynote speeches were all too often incredible and interminable. Historian Mark Sullivan once called them "a combination of oratory, grand opera and hog calling." After Ohio Senator Simeon Fess's keynote at the 1928 Republican Convention, Will Rogers chortled: "Here are just a few things I bet you didn't know the Republicans were responsible for: radio, telephone, baths, automobiles, savings accounts, law enforcement, workmen living in houses and a living wage for Senators...
...Fess Parker, D.LET., star of Daniel Boone television series...
...dangers of going to college is that you learn things, and that my present actions are much influenced by my Contemporary Civilization C1001 readings. After sealing the letter I realize that my conception of the philosophy of law comes not so much from Rousseau as from Fess Parker as Davy Crockett. I remember his saying that you should decide what you think is right and then go ahead and do it. Walt Disney really bagged that one; the old fascist inadvertently created a whole generation of radicals...
...long enough for Ames's agent to get a call for an 8-by-10 glossy picture of Ames in swimming trunks. The request was from the producers of the upcoming Daniel Boone TV series. This is Ames's fourth -and probably last-season in the show. Fess Parker, who plays the title role, co-produces, and owns a 30% piece of Boone, is chafing in his buckskins because Ames pulled more fan mail last spring. In any case, Ames wants out of the noble-savage bit. "Television series are a great hazard," he explains. "The more successful...
LONDON PALLADIUM SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Fess Parker is host to some British vaudevillians as well as Dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Svetlana Beriosova of the Royal Ballet...