Word: harrisons
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Throughout American history, it's not so much a candidate's age as how he wears it that weighs on voters. William Henry Harrison was 67 when he ran for President in 1840, and judging from what passed for press reports at the time, no one seemed to care. Democrats tried to frighten voters after Eisenhower fell ill in 1955. "They ran ads saying that if you elected Eisenhower, you were going to get Nixon because [Ike] was going to die," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania...
After graduating in 1955, Harrison moved acrossthe Charles River to attend Harvard BusinessSchool. But after a year, with some encouragementfrom his late father-in-law, a journalist,Harrison went to Florida as a printer...
Several years later, Harrison went to New Yorkand studied the annual reports of The New YorkTimes. He approached the management with a plan todiversify the corporation's holdings by purchasinga series of small newspapers. The company gaveHarrison the green light, and he wound up managingabout three dozen small papers in the South...
...Harrison's affiliation with Harvard is equallyimpressive...
...says he enjoys vacationing in hisKennebunkport, Maine vacation home with his wife,Mary ("Dr. Mary," he insists proudly. "She justgot her Ph.D."), as well as playing with theircats, Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Harrison...