Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marathon started early in July, when Schulman met the governor, his wife and their daughter Carrie Ellen in Seattle. "We talked about everything from Langlie's newly announced keynote-speech assignment at the Republican Convention to his golf handicap," Schulman recalled. At the end the governor had two requests: 1) for the first draft of his keynote speech he wanted a copy of Schulman's notes on his political philosophy, which, Langlie felt, he had just expressed as cogently as he could remember, and 2) could their next meeting be purely social? "On any other basis...
Nobody has ever been able to demonstrate to the Republican leaders that Nixon would be a "handicap." In fact, he disproves it on the stump and captivates big audiences. And nobody has yet been able to find a single sentence which Nixon ever uttered saying that the Democrats were "a party of treason...
...Saratoga Handicap (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). The $50,000 horse race...
...From Handicap to Holiness. Bishop Marling feels that the saints provide an especially rich field for the psychiatrist. For Catholic writers often show a misguided tendency to suppress neurotic elements in the saints' biographies. For though "the struggle for perfection . . .tends to a balanced character, to genuine psychological unity," there is no need to deny that many saints were neurotic. In Bishop Marling's view, "Many a saint has borne a neurosis to a holy death, and enjoys the honors of the altar precisely because, though handicapped by ignorance of its nature and source, he struggled valiantly against...
Married. Emanuel ("Manny") Shinwell, 71, British Socialist Minister of Defense (1950-51), self-educated ("It's a great handicap") veteran Laborite; and Dinah Meyer, 54, London bank secretary and staunch admirer of Tory Sir Winston Churchill; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...