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Mares & Medicare. Moving his rig into the Senate, Kerr quickly struck a gusher as a man who could talk at any length on any subject. He also had, briefly, even higher ambitions. In 1952 Kerr started a drive for the Democratic Presidential nomination, lasted through one roll call at the convention. "It would appear," he said later, "that the people did not realize what a superior product was being offered them." Mainly, he is noted in the Senate for his pungent rhetoric. For years he has sparred with Illinois' doughty Democrat Paul Douglas. In 1958, as Protectionist Kerr...
...before run for major public office: John Connally, 45. Fort Worth lawyer and oil man. who plotted strategy for Lyndon Johnson's campaigns from 1937 right through the 1960 convention. Connally quit as Secretary of the Navy to run for Governor. Backed by 26 Texas dailies and a gusher of contributions, Conservative Connally is staging the most intensive campaign of any of the candidates: in two months he has traveled more than 22,000 miles, made 43 major speeches, appeared on two statewide and 22 local telecasts...
When Surgeon Robin P. Michelson reached the brain to remove the tumor, he hit no gusher, but found the area cool, still and, for all practical purposes, dry. Under these ideal conditions he was able to remove virtually all the tumor within ten minutes, though he probably could have taken four times as long without added risk. The research team removed their tubes and clamps, let the patient's own blood rewarm her brain...
...signaling something new and distinctively American. It has been an emancipation proclamation for later generations of U.S. writers as apparently diverse as Thomas Wolfe, Saul Bellow, Henry Miller, James Agee and Jack Kerouac-and for writers anywhere who have felt inhibited by form and classic restraint. Whitman tapped a gusher, and no one reading the letters can doubt that he knew just what he was doing. To a correspondent he gleefully quoted a derisive squib from a critic, which said that he had arrived in New York "carrying the blue cotton umbrella of the future...
...girl beneath the wig, rice powder and rubber eyelids was Hollywood's Shirley MacLaine, the rowdy, redheaded comedienne (CanCan, The Apartment) whose behavior, both on and off screen, is more gusher than geisha. She downed her sake like a longshoreman and sneezed into the hot towels. But in three strenuous days last week, she became a creditable novice at the famed Gion geisha school. The reason she is pretending to be a geisha is that she has a role in a movie in which she will portray an American actress pretending to be a geisha. And the reason...