Word: haling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overwhelming majority of the people who know her give Lady Bird exceedingly high marks for personal charm and attractiveness. "I've never talked to anyone who didn't like her," says Blanche Halleck, wife of the House Republican leader. Lindy Boggs, wife of Louisiana Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs, and a longtime Lady Bird chum, is hard put to make her friend's virtues seem real. "I make her sound like a combination of Elsie Dinsmore and the Little Colonel," says Mrs. Boggs, "but this is the problem with Bird. When you talk about her, you make...
...supply of gumption and money to launch a daily in the face of established opposition. The last time anyone had the nerve to try was in Phoenix, Ariz., where after two years, the upstart competitors have yet to find their place. But Atlanta's new paper looked uncommonly hale for a journalistic juvenile. The Times's 128-page debut issue thumped on 175,000 doorsteps, a neatly balanced, eye-pleasing display of big pictures and ample white space to break up the body type. The paper's management claimed a solid circulation, after the souvenir hunters dropped...
Tommy Armour, Gene Sarazen, Alex Morrisson-almost every oldtimer still hale enough to handle a club or a typewriter gets into the act. Gary Middlecoff, the dentist from Memphis, continues to drill out advice, though he stands farther than Palmer from the actual practice of journalism. His ghostwriter, Reporter Thomas E. Michael of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, last consulted the dentist nine years ago. "I'm very much by myself," says Michael, who has since managed six Middlecoff bylines a week-for steadily dwindling readership. Most golf columns lose readers at about the same rate that their custodians lose...
RICHARD E. HALE...
...endorsement. Next New Year's Day the top lawman will reach the compulsory retirement age of 70. "I know you wouldn't think of breaking the law," said L.B.J. So to offset the requirement, the President signed a special executive order that will allow the hale and hearty bachelor to continue serving "for an indefinite period of time...