Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic campaign bounced merrily and fruitfully through the week-as Maine voters rolled up their victory and Democratic dollars rolled heavily into the campaign fund-but the party's chief candidate conversely seemed to be having his troubles. It was characteristic of Adlai Stevenson's week that whenever he loosened up and turned on the charm, he was a snappy hit; but before TV cameras and big audiences Adlai sadly sagged...
...they prepared to meet the crowd, someone remarked that it was a greater throng than the one that recently met Rock-'n'-Roll Star Elvis Presley. "Who," asked Stevenson, "is Elvis Presley?" As usual, Estes Kefauver was right on hand to help fill Stevenson's fund of commoner knowledge. Elvis the Pelvis, he said, was "a fine boy" from Tennessee...
...embarrassing chore. Their problem, as Chicago Mayor Richard Daley put it, was to choose in "open and free balloting" a substitute for Cook County Treasurer Herbert C. Paschen, who stepped out of the race for governor two weeks ago, after disclosures that a $29,000 employees' "welfare fund" administered by his office had been used for political purposes (TIME, Sept...
...Wizard of Oz. Ed Murrow's, See It Now will include cathode reports from the Suez. Asia. Russia and South America, and a 1½hr. documentary of Buffoon Danny Kaye's 32,000-mile junket for the U.N.'s Children's Emergency Fund. Martin Manulis' Playhouse 90, the chain's most ambitious drama project, offers adaptations of Charley's Aunt, Kay Thompson's Eloise, J. P. Marquand's Sincerely, Willis Wayde, and Shirley Booth in The Perle Mesta Story. Jack Benny returns this month from a successful BBC stint loaded...
Doing the Right Thing. Last week the roof blew off. The Sim-Times disclosed that Paschen had failed to account for a $4,000 contingency fund. Reacting swiftly, Gutknecht subpoenaed Paschen to appear before the grand jury. That brought Dick Daley down with both feet. Said the mayor flatly: "His running would be injurious to the entire ticket. I hope he does the right thing...