Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he was not golfing, Ike went hunting with George Humphrey. Shooting well, the President bagged a wild turkey, regularly came close to the legal limit of twelve quail daily. For the news photographers Hunter Eisenhower was a somewhat unsatisfactory subject. After an initial protest ("That would be silly") he finally agreed to pose with his shotgun slung over his shoulder, but a photographer's request that he pose sighting his gun near Humphrey's mule-drawn hunting wagon met with scandalized refusal: "What? Right over the mules? Let's not be corny...
...Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's Georgia plantation Dwight Eisenhower went about his holiday exertions with the cheerful equanimity of a man who has already made his big decisions. On two successive days the President shot 18 holes of golf, and, although his game was not up to its pre-coronary level, his good humor remained unruffled. "You are going to hear a heck of a lot of laughter today," he told Glen Arven Country Club Pro Johnny Walter at the start of the first 18. "My doctor has given me orders that if I don't start laughing...
...Feminine Touch. Before the vacation was over, Mamie too got in a bit of hunting-feminine style. Driving into Thomasville with Mrs. Humphrey, the First Lady (who often gets her clothes from Designer Mollie Parnis) stopped off at Steyerman's Department Store and bought nine dresses-linens, cottons and silk prints (size 14) in small, muted patterns. On impulse Mamie also tried on some of Steyerman's new over-the-fore-head hats. The upshot, familiar to many a U.S. husband, was that she emerged from Steyerman's with the same black pillbox she had been wearing...
Peculiar Intensity. Throughout his stay in Georgia Ike had thrown himself into all of his activities with a peculiar intensity. There was a strong and probably conscious parallel between the physical exertions of his next to last full day at the Humphrey plantation and the day he had spent in Denver exactly five months earlier-the day before his heart attack. (In Denver, on Sept. 23, Ike shot 27 holes of golf. On the next to last day of his Georgia vacation he shot 18 holes of golf, hunted for two hours, sat up till 12:30 playing bridge.) There...
...Minnesota March 20), Kefauver's campaign manager is inclined to place his bets in Minnesota: "Minnesota is what really counts at the moment, and I figure we'll get a good 35% of the vote. That's darn good when you consider that the powerful [Hubert Humphrey] organization is against us, and it carries the weight in the cities." In Florida (where Kefauver is entered in the May 29 primary) segregation is a major issue, and Jiggs has advised him to avoid that explosive subject. "I've just told Estes," he explained, "to lay off civil...