Word: homespun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rogers of the Gazette (Wed. 9:30 p.m., CBS Radio) is Will Rogers Jr., who is shown as the friendly editor of a country newspaper, struggling against the pressures and prejudices of small-town life. Homespun, slow-spoken Will (who used to be publisher of California's Beverly Hills Citizen) drops pearls of wisdom in the quizzical voice, if not the skeptical manner, of his humorist father. Says Will: "This is a good, sensible little program. I may not feel at ease yet, but I think I'm getting there." Unsponsored...
Trudging across this bleak land last week, surrounded by adoring crowds wherever he went, was a gentle, half-deaf little wisp of a man, dressed in the garb of poverty-a homespun dhoti and cheap brown canvas sneakers-but lighted by a flame of authority that has made him one of India's most notable spiritual leaders. His name is Vinoba Bhave (pronounced bah vay). He has no place in the government or any other secular organization; he is what Hindus call an acharya (preceptor). Only a land with holy cities, sacred rivers and thin margins between want...
Most of the week Truman's attractive, homespun side was on public view. Longtime foes were temporarily softened by his warmth and perkiness. Democrats were stirred to nostalgia by his last annual economic report. Said Harry, conjuring up visions of Franklin Roosevelt: "In the mid-1930s, it was no exaggeration to speak of one-third of a nation ill-fed, ill-clad and ill-housed. Since then, the one-third has been reduced to one-fifth or maybe less...
...attack but were forced to retreat across the paddies under withering machine-gun and mortar fire. In their second attack, the legionnaires got in among them with bayonets and grenades. The fight went on behind the cactus hedges and straw huts, with fanatical young Communists in brown homespun clothing shouting "La dai" (Come and get us). The legionnaires got them. On the river, naval units sank six barges full of Viet Minh soldiers and equipment. Four-star General Raoul Sa-lan, who has been consistently chipper, even on the eve of past setbacks, boasted: "The future of our military actions...
Post Office & Civil Service. Frank Carlson, the homespun Senator from Kansas, one of Ike Eisenhower's closest campaign advisers...