Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buncombe Bob. With the primary only a fortnight away, Frank Graham still seemed to be the man to beat. He had little to worry about from one opponent, demagogic Robert ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, 65, who was hitting the comeback trail with his same old isolationist line: "I say stop immigration now and lock the gates securely, because I know we have not a friend on earth." But Reynolds seemed to have lost his punch...
...Graham's real opposition came from 62-year-old Willis Smith, a Raleigh corporation lawyer and chairman of the Duke University board of trustees who once served as president of the American Bar Association, and was a registered state lobbyist for several manufacturers and wholesalers. Though he was a cold, uninspired speaker, who often talked at his audience as if he were addressing a jury in a utility case, he seemed to be making considerable headway...
Against Smith's conservative and industrial support, Graham could muster the bulk of North Carolina's labor and Negro vote. The one worry of Graham's supporters was that overactive backing, from either the C.I.O. or the Negro organizations would raise the old Southern rallying cry of outside interference. With the warning of Florida fresh in mind, the order went out to them: keep under wraps until primary...
...newspapers, and most of them like him very much indeed. Professor Mark Van Doren has read Smith's columns to his Columbia University English classes. Humorist Frank Sullivan rates Smith "a humorist of purest ray serene." Smith's friendly rival on the New York Journal-American, Frank Graham, who travels south every year with Red to cover spring baseball training, calls him, "the country's best sports writer...
...Giegerich (D), 8:19; Post (Pilssner), 9:23; Fiertz (Gates) (D), 13:12; Third period: Lyon (Fiertz) (D), 0:12; Caldwell (Gates) (D), 3:40; Hudner (Waring), 3:54; Davis (Plissner) 4:49; Funkhouser (Caldwell) (D), 9:30; Birdsall (Davidson), 14:15; Fiertz (D), 14:35; Fourth period: Plissner (Graham), 1:26; Waring (Hudner), 3:50; Funkhouser (Gates) (D), 5:58; Caldwell (D), 6:19; Funkhouser (Lynch...