Word: genes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hippies of the Press. Piqued by Kennedy's persistent refusal to debate or even recognize him, McCarthy ironically underlined the point Bobby is seeking to make: that Gene has become a stand-in for Hubert. If he dropped out of the race, McCarthy told a TV interviewer, he would prefer Humphrey to Kennedy. Realizing his error-many of his anti-Administration supporters would leave him if they thought he was merely playing the spoiler's role to block Kennedy-the Minnesotan later hedged his statement, then took a jab at reporters who refused to accept his backtracking...
...maintained that the phrase had been written by a bona fide founding father, no less. Though the Library of Congress has not been able to trace the quote, a Humphrey aide said that he thought John Adams had put the words in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. His source: Gene McCarthy, who once used the phrase in his own speeches...
...GENE FARMER Staten Island...
...present new problems to Kennedy. Oregon is underdog territory, and McCarthy's campaign there is better organized than it was in either Nebraska or Indiana. Although the Minnesotan himself appears discouraged, his troops on the West Coast seem to be of a mood to give one last push for Gene. Kennedy enjoys support from the regular Democratic organization in Oregon, but that is puny by any reckoning in that anti-organization state. And some Oregonians remember that Bobby, as a Senate investigator in 1957, was instrumental in getting Portland's Mayor Terry Schrunk tried for bribery and perjury. Schrunk...
...happens to be the most bizarre entertainer this side of Barnum & Bailey's sideshow. His specialties are pop songs from early decades of the century, and his performances flicker with a genuine talent for re-creating the styles of such stars of the era as Arthur Fields, Gene Austin, Ruth Etting and Russ Columbo. But Tiny dismisses the notion that he does imitations. "The spirits of singers whose songs I do are living within me," he insists. All this is pathetically easy to mock, yet Tiny's total absorption in his role-what one friend calls "the purity...