Word: hadley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theatre adage that a gun which appears in the first act is sure to shoot someone by the end of the third. So when Gilman Hadley proclaims his belief in the ultimate justice of the law, the audience is well prepared to watch him suffer a fate just slightly better than death...
Four Day Campaign. The Barkleys-the Veep, Mrs. Barkley and her daughter Jane Hadley-rolled into Chicago three days before the convention, and the candidate's first act was to pin a lightning button to his lapel. Then, to prove how young he still was at 74, he led a procession five blocks through the sultry heat to his headquarters in the Conrad Hilton Hotel. At a full-dress press conference that afternoon, his eyes looked a little tired, and his pink face seemed slightly drawn with lines of weariness. But as the Veep went through his catalogue...
...again." But Barkley made himself one of the best-known Vice Presidents in history. His grandchildren tagged him "the Veep," a national title that delighted the headline writers. And in 1949 the headlines followed hot on the Veep's coattails as he courted and won the winsome Widow Hadley of St. Louis, and took her home to Washington and Paducah...
Radioactive. In Evanston, Ill., arrested the third time for stealing the same portable radio, Norwood Hadley explained: "I just love that radio...
CAROLYN BARTHOLF Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, Mass...