Word: handiworks
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...himself was burning up the wires. The one man who could destroy Nixon with a word was warning by phone that the use of words like "bold" and "new" in the defense plank of the platform would be "falling into a trap." The statements. Ike said, were the unmistakable handiwork of his own former speechwriter, Emmet Hughes, who had quit the White House staff in disillusionment with his role there and now was Rocky's policy adviser (TIME, June 20). By using Rocky-Hughes wording, said Ike to Nixon, "you are saying that you and I haven...
...please the party's liberals, most of them Stevensonians at heart, Kennedy saw to it that the party platform, largely the handiwork of Kennedy Man Chester Bowles, was a far-out liberal manifesto containing a tough civil rights plank that enraged the South. Then, ditching the liberals, Kennedy tried to placate the Southerners and give his ticket a conservative aura by picking Texas' Lyndon Johnson as his running mate...
Delwood leaned back in his chair and looked at the acoustical ceiling with a self-satisfied air. Then he turned to the pad and surveyed his handiwork. His eye fell on the black column...
...story, yellow brick Sheraton Hotel in French Lick, Ind. to blow to an audience sprawled on the lawns and perched in the surrounding oak trees, and in Toronto for a four-day blow at Exhibition Park. Both shindigs, together with the Boston Jazz Festival, are the handiwork of Newport Impresario George Wein, who advertises his various wares under the slogan, "Have Festival, Will Travel." Survivors of Newport are also expected this summer in the eucalyptus-fringed Hollywood Bowl (the First Annual Los Angeles Jazz Festival), New York City's Randall's Island (the Randall's Island Jazz...
...springboard that launched General Andrew Jackson on his way to the presidency. It now enjoys a third distinction as the subject of a pop disk, The Battle of New Orleans (Columbia), which has sold some threequarter million copies in less than a month. The recorded Battle is the handiwork of Louisiana Country Singer Johnny Horton, but the song has been played by bayou fiddlers for generations. Singer Horton toned down the original verses ("They lost their pants/ And their pretty shiny coats/ And their tails were all a-showing/ Like a bunch of billy goats"), gave the song a martial...