Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extended even to a right-to-work-for-Wayne-Morse law. Last week all Oregon learned what the Senator's neighbors in Eugene have known for two months: that fiery Democratic (and ex-Republican) Liberal Morse had fired a part-time gardener, horse handler and 25-year friend because the 65-year-old handyman dared defend Dwight Eisenhower to Morse's face...
Morse and Handyman DeForest ("Dee") Pickert were bound for a campaign rally in Oregon City last October when a third friend remarked to Republican Pickert: "Wayne really gave your old pal Ike a good working over last night." Snapped Pickert: "Ike has forgot more about war than the common man will ever know." At that point Wayne Morse blew with a fury old friends in Oregon and the U.S. Capitol are wary of. Soon after Morse sent to Employee Pickert a check for $49.25 in wages and a parting explanation: "I am very sorry that it became necessary...
...eyebrow because of her custom of moving guests from one after-dinner conversational cluster to another). Belgium's Silvercruys gives small but elegant dinners at his home, forbids shop talk ("I do not work at meal time"), is widely regarded as a gourmet (who, when told that a friend was returning to Belgium, cried forlornly, "What a bad time! The sole will not be at their best...
...Salem, Va., who got tired of hearing "songs about funny animals, Santa Claus and filter cigarettes" at Christmastime and decided that "everybody was kind of starved for something real sincere." The something Deejay McGraw provided and had sung in unretouched hillbilly by the eight-year-old daughter of a friend is selling platters from Albany to Atlanta. Excerpts...
...about was the school building program. Says he: "When I got the facts I went wild. Some of the schools were downright unsanitary. The rest rooms were so bad the kids wouldn't even go to the bathroom. And the curriculum was just as bad." In 1953 a friend jokingly challenged him to run for the school board. A self-styled Renaissance man who never went beyond prep school (Choate), Hiss took the dare, to his surprise wound up as the first Republican elected to the school board since Reconstruction days...