Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...panzer divisions were moving through the hotels. Typical of the way they operated was the story of Ohio's Delegate Chester Gillespie, who had been sent to the convention to vote for Stassen. Delegate Gillespie is a Cleveland Negro and an old friend of New York's most prominent Negro Republican, City Judge Francis E. Rivers. This information was on file...
...meeting the next afternoon (again at 2031 Locust), Duff, Taft and Stassen sat down with Connecticut's national committeeman, Harold Mitchell (representing favorite son Ray Baldwin), and Kim Sigler, governor of Michigan, leader of the Vandenberg forces. California's Earl Warren was represented by a close friend, Preston Hotchkiss. They figured that the coalition could count on 630 votes-more than enough to stop Dewey...
General Ike, wrote his friend Roy Roberts in the Kansas City Star, feels that the G.O.P. must make known by its platform, but more especially by its candidate, its intention to stand firm for the bipartisan foreign policy. The candidate Eisenhower would prefer: Vandenberg. Those whom he would count safe: Dewey, Stassen, Warren. Nominees whom Eisenhower would not accept: Taft, Bricker, Joe Martin. If the G.O.P. disappointed Ike, what would he do? Wrote Roberts: "His friends believe that he will take a dramatic way to warn the country. . . How far he'll go, no one knows...
...encouragement as she trains for the trotting races. (P.S.: she does all right.) Left to their own devices, these glorious animals are a treat to watch. But too much time is wasted on relatively dull human beings: the Healthy Juvenile who owns Crown Jewel (Robert Arthur); his tomboy girl friend (Peggy Cummins, prettily poured into dungarees); her growling, boozy grandfather (a deadly conventional role all but redeemed by Charles Coburn's restraint); Burl Ives (singing a weird, savage ballad about two battling white stallions, which contrasts oddly with the picture's prevailing genteelism...
Green Grass of Wyoming (20th Century-Fox). Thunderhead, son of My Friend Flicka (Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, 1945; My Friend Flicka, 1943), is a wild, spectacular white stallion who gallops magnificently from ranch to ranch scrounging beautiful young mares by the dozen and leading them off to his harem deep in the hills. In the current installment this beguiling libertine is transformed into as meek a monogamist as ever commuted from Westchester...