Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kingsley Hopkins Murphy climbed off a plane in Hartford and wearily wondered what perils awaited his boss, Hubert Humphrey, in Connecticut. Murphy had a week to "run the traps," as every advance man should, and his brain was abuzz with the axioms of his craft: "Make them come to you; get typists and a legman quick; be anonymous; don't spill news-dribble it out; stress unity; keep calm; avoid nonunion bands; don't make cameras shoot into the sun; be ready to pick up strays; beware of national committeewomen...
...assignments for Humphrey since 1964, eleven of them in this campaign. Last week he felt "like a man in the middle of the Atlantic in winter in a 3-ft. canoe." Experience warned him that the simple scheduled plans were too good to believe. Humphrey was to arrive in Hartford after midnight, catch some sleep, and next morning chat with suburban housewives in nearby Bloomfield. Then he was to fly in his Boeing 727 to Stratford for a speech at the Avco Lycoming plant, ride in an hour-long motorcade to Waterbury for a rally on the green, and finally...
...walked into Hartford's Hotel America, ready to confirm reservations for up to 200 rooms that he would need by the end of the week, and found there were none. There had been a mixup, perhaps because of a rumored "collection problem." Keeping calm, he telephoned Humphrey's Washington headquarters. "Get John Bailey," he was told. The former Democratic National Committee chairman was out. Murphy and an aide solved the hotel dilemma with a $5,000 check. Bailey appeared and provided him with a secretary, typists and a driver. Murphy set up his headquarters in the hotel, where...
...groups that follow the two dreams are as different as the dreams themselves. Paunchy suburban couples from Hartford and Los Angeles come to see Southern Hospitality. They are displeased with the increasing velocity of their modern life; and the sight of calm acres make them smile. They gladly plunk down their admission fees to see the remnants of the old days in Natchez and Richmond. They stay at hotels with names like The Plantation House, and go home convinced that heaven must be a little like the South...
...fact, the album stands as a timely symbol of the growing infusion of country sounds into the U.S. pop mainstream. More and more, country performers-from established figures like Buck Owens to newcomers such as Glen Campbell and John Hartford-are commanding national audiences. At the same time, pop performers, including Bob Dylan and the Byrds, are gravitating closer to the country style. "With better communications, there's more exposure of country music," says Cash. "I think people go back to it to find the basic thing, the grass roots. People like my songs, for instance, because there...