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Roosevelt, on the strength of that formidable name and familiar grin, is striving to resurrect a once promising political career. After three terms in Congress, he lost a bid for the gubernatorial nomination in 1954, settled for the attorney general's candidacy, and went down to defeat while the rest of the Democratic ticket was elected. He fell into relative obscurity in Washington, first as an automobile dealer, then as Under Secretary of Commerce, and finally as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, from which he resigned last week...
...rival Democratic and Minnesota Farm er-Labor parties. He won the mayoralty in his second try at age 34. A Minneapolis newspaper reported at the time: "He seems to be a wonderful and meteoric young man, bouncy and gay, built on springs, with a fierce face and pleasant young grin. He puts firecrackers under everything." After two explosively successful terms as a reform mayor, Humphrey became the first Democrat ever popularly elected to the U.S. Senate from Minnesota...
Lamb and Jones were physically perfect for their roles. Lamb, with a forehead dripping stringy hair, a mouth missing front teeth and surrounded by a grizzled chin, moved across stage with shambling feet and hands that shared time twitching and scratching. The hulking Jones mastered the vacant grin and the dead, controlled stare of a man who ever since the doctors removed the "pincers" from his skull "couldn't look to the right or the left . . . just straight ahead...
...work on that unmooted issue, stayed up to polish their prose until 3 o'clock in the morning and at noon delivered his minority opinion at a well-attended press conference. When somebody asked him what he aimed to do next with his proposals, Kennedy said with a grin: "I guess I'll take them home and show them to my wife...
...Washington's Walter Reed Hospital after recovery from his November heart attack in Augusta, Ga., settled down with Mamie, his son John and four grandchildren for a private and grateful Christmas. His doctors' greetings: he can take short strolls and climb stairs now. Said Ike with a grin: "I expect I'll be playing golf again within a month-but slowly...