Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...names turned up at parties given by other top names. Kennedy looked in on a dinner for Harry Truman; Pundit Walter Lippmann gave a cocktail party for some seven score luminaries in arts and science ("nobody below the rank of Nobel prizewinner"); Eleanor Roosevelt and former New York Senator Herbert Lehman tirelessly made the rounds...
Amid all the gaiety, the first flakes of snow were barely noticed. But they kept falling-and falling and falling. By nightfall on inaugural eve, confusion was complete. At least 10,000 cars were stalled and abandoned. Airplanes stacked up over the airport, then flew away; Herbert Hoover, winging up from Miami, had to turn back, never got to the inaugural. It took Pat Nixon 2½ hours to get from her Wesley Heights home to the Senate Office Building, where her husband was holding a farewell party for his staff. Secretary of State Christian Herter got stuck...
...truth to his ambitious but faithful mistress: "This is no playground, it's a jungle," (the camera focusses on his half-made bed), "and it eats up little girls like you" (a few minutes later he pounces). It also eats up poor young boys like his protege Bongo Herbert (Cliff Richards), overnight transformed from an ordinary lower-class teen-ager to England's hottest singer...
...Democrats and voters by dictating the selection of the party's candidate for the U.S. Senate race, New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan. After Hogan and other Democrats were clobbered, bands of anti-De Sapio reformers in New York City clustered around aging Eleanor Roosevelt, former Governor Herbert Lehman, and former Air Force Secretary Thomas Fin-letter (who had been done out of the senatorial nomination by De Sapio). They came within an ace of defeating De Sapio for the leadership of his home district in Greenwich Village, and they upended several De Sapio candidates in last year...
...minuscule budget, Editor Levitas could not afford to pay his contributors, telling them: "Don't expect to profit from the truth." With that approach, and with his policy of letting them write whatever they wished, he attracted such as John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, George Orwell, Herbert Morrison and Walter Reuther...