Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California's winner-take-all primary last month. Instead of having a virtually unbeatable first-ballot arsenal, the South Dakotan suddenly had his delegate strength pared, at least for the present, down to well below 1,300 -far short of the 1,509 needed for nomination. Suddenly Hubert Humphrey was politically alive again. So, for that matter, were Edmund Muskie and any number of dark horses. What had promised to be a ritual endorsement next week at Miami Beach now loomed as a bitter and potentially fratricidal collision of McGovern insurgents and party regulars. The clash could cause...
...begun, McGovern seemed to change his mind. "I don't want to make any threats," he said. "If the Democratic nominee is nominated according to the rules, in a way I think is fair and honorable, I'll support him." Even so, the credentials challenge mounted by Humphrey and other anti-McGovern forces emerged as the potentially critical event of the election year. It seemed the one circumstance that could stop McGovern and thus undo the almost surrealistically effective crusade he has waged since the wreckage of Chicago...
...Nixon and give their money to Nixon." Although McGovern was at pains in New York to proclaim himself a firm supporter of Israel, some Jews still mistrust him; some also feel that McGovern's political aura is too radical. San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto, a Humphrey supporter, fears that the Italian community, finding McGovern "too permissive," would drift into the Republican column. Says an Illinois delegate: "McGovern has to get in tune with the realities of the middle class. If he doesn't, he's headed for disaster...
...wrote and starred in a Broadway hit play about a recently divorced nebbish with an acute inability to score. The show, not surprisingly, coincided with the breakup of his marriage to Louise Lasser. Play It Again. Sam-even brighter in the film than onstage-features the visible shade of Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, plus several unseen ghosts. "I never had a teacher who made the least impression on me," Woody says. "If you ask me who are my heroes, the answer is simple and truthful: George S. Kaufman and the Marx Brothers." In Play It Again, Sam, they...
...African Queen. The classic Huston-Agee riverboat romance, with an illiterate Humphrey Bogart and missionary Katherine Hepburn chugging their way through a German-filled Congo during World War I. Also, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman's poetic, authentic northwestern--an excruciatingly honest love story. HARVARD SQUARE CINEMA. McCabe: 2:15, 6, 9:40; Queen...