Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his primary campaign, New York's Congressman Ham Fish was linked to jailed Bundist Fritz Kuhn in a newspaper ad. The ad was paid for by a committee headed by Playwright Maxwell Anderson. Promptly Ham Fish sued for $250,000 libel. Sniffed Anderson: "It is his practice to bring suits during a campaign, make a big howl about them and then drop them quietly when the campaign is over." Last week, the campaign over (TIME, Aug. 14), Ham Fish quietly dropped his suit...
...dates and dinner arrangements were all through the courtesy of Miss Inglis, and the boys say they couldn't have been more delightful. Back in Cambridge, they had ham and eggs at one of the girls' homes with more dancing in stocking feet. Next week they have dates for a picnic...
...last May, in a bitter poetic outburst for which the New Yorker paid him $180. What had moved Maxwell Anderson to sad song was a piece of gerrymandering. By redistricting, Anderson's South Mountain Road home in the Hudson River valley had suddenly become a part of Congressman Ham Fish's constituency...
...vote was very light. The three new counties voted almost 2-to-1 against Fish. But Ham Fish still had enough of his old-line strength in populous Orange County, which had helped send him to Congress twelve times before. Orange County gave Fish a 5,000 majority, enough to win him the Republican nomination over earnest, clean-cut Lawyer Augustus Bennet...
Third-Act Miracle. Playwright Anderson & Co. believe they can still beat Ham Fish in the finals, next November, but their plans are as confusing as the unravelings of a fifth-rate play. Candidate Bennet, who lost on the Republican ticket last week, will run in November on a party ticket of his own-the Good Government Party, with the endorsements of the Democrats and the American Labor Party. (If elected, he has vowed to serve as a Republican.) To accomplish this, Lawyer Bennet must pull a better third-act miracle than any Playwright Anderson ever carried off on the stage...