Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...split there. Nebraska puts him squarely against Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr. as yet an untried, but supposedly potent, Midwest contender. If Kefauver vanquishes Kerr and picks up odds & ends of strength along the way, his next obstacle will be Georgia's Richard Russell (in the two Florida votes May 6 and May 27) and Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson (in Oregon May 16). Kefauver's prospects are (in this respect only) somewhat like that of a professional burglar: a good average isn't enough-he has to win every time...
...young editors, ten-year-old Tommy Piper of Lock Haven (Pa.), reported the gist of it all in terse journalese: "The President . . . told about why he had come from Florida. The reason was very simple. He had come to talk to us so we would grow up to be good men like...
...campaign in 1948 for governor. Manhattan's Merritt-Chapman & Scott, of which Wolfson is board chairman, now has a $3,588,959 contract building the bridge substructure for Jacksonville's new $50 million expressway. The firm, whose total backlog is $89 million, has many big projects outside Florida, including part of California's $30 million Folsom...
...Author Russ, it was a lucky hunch. Quivering Earth finally brought her the heady experience of first publication. What it brings to the reader is a story of the Florida Everglades that has more heart than art. So long as the heart beats firmly (about half the distance), this story of the big swamp has the endearing ingenuousness of a primitive painting, and some of the lushness...
...Quivering Earth. Jesse and Keeta wind up in a boom town, and in final chapters as lurid and contrived as the first are lyrical and artless, Jesse finds his long-lost children and the woman who bore them, while Keeta gets herself just about the nicest man in Florida. Its last part reads as though some publishing expert finally explained to Author Russ what it takes to get a book published these days...