Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost that same time, Harold Stassen was throwing in the towel on his dump-Nixon fight. Throughout the week, the haggardly smiling Stassen had endured small indignities: he was booed in the Fairmont Hotel; delegates flaunted insulting buttons saying. "stASSen" and "Stassen Stop Harassin'." Stassen could have taken all that if he had been making headway. But even he perceived that he had underestimated Dick Nixon's strength in the Republican Party. At the eleventh hour on Wednesday he went to Eisenhower, said he was giving up, asked permission to second Nixon's nomination that afternoon...
Between delegations on Monday, Nixon managed to find time for a luncheon trip to Fisherman's Wharf with newsmen and Dan Gainey, Minnesota jewelry manufacturer who backed Harold Stassen in 1948 and 1952 but has grown increasingly cool toward Childe Harold. No sooner had Nixon left his car for the block-long walk to the Exposition Grotto than a crowd began to gather. Nixon showed all the pump-handle efficiency of an Estes Kefauver in shaking hands with cab drivers, tourists, shopkeepers, cops, and everyone else he could reach...
...elephants, Chinese dragons and pretty pompon girls to dress up the act, the actors were depressingly well-mannered. But if the feature attraction was predictable, there were some lively cartoons and notable short subjects: a beaming Ike playfully flicking balloons with Joe Martin; Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge cold-shouldering Harold Stassen; Keynoter Langlie imitating Keynoter Frank ("How long, O how long?") Clement; the Eisenhowers and Nixons grouped together beneath the rostrum; Ike's proud-grandpa chuckle when beamish Len Hall made eight-year-old David Eisenhower honorary convention chairman; Joe Martin steadying old (82) Herbert Hoover with a thoughtful...
Moviegoers know Burt Lancaster as an exuberant athletic type, at his best when there's something to swing from. But while Actor Burt Lancaster has been brachiating with Gina Lollobrigida (in Trapeze) and Caribbean wrongdoers (The Crimson Pirate), Independent Producer Burton Stephen Lancaster and his business partner Harold Hecht have been shinnying to a top branch in the Hollywood jungle...
...Independents. Short, round-faced ex-dancer (with Martha Graham), ex-Hollywood Agent Harold Adolph Hecht, 49, who runs the business end of the partnership and shares authority with Lancaster, is convinced that this is the era of independent producers. Small production outfits are multiplying, and such major studio chiefs as Darryl Zanuck and Jerry Wald have recently quit their jobs to form independent companies...