Word: humphreyism
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...compared with the six Presidents from Kennedy through Reagan, you can draw up a list of defeated candidates and defeated contenders for nomination that may well include some better presidential material than some of the Presidents we actually got. On the Democratic side: Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson, Adlai Stevenson (still a factor in 1960). Republican: Nelson Rockefeller, William Scranton, Howard Baker, George Bush, John Connally...
...active professionals were joined by dozens of other players who, unable to make a living, had hung up their instruments long before. Soon they were all playing together again as though the clock had been turned back. "A whole lot of us had given up," remembers Percy Humphrey, 77, a trumpet player who has since traveled around the world with a Preservation Hall touring band. "I never did think it could happen in my life, playing to crowds of 30,000 to 40,000 on our tours. But the good Lord answered my prayers...
Philip Marlowe got $25 a day plus expenses. That was a fair amount of money in 1946, when Humphrey Bogart portrayed Raymond Chandler's fictional private eye in The Big Sleep. Marlowe would be stunned by what inflation has done to the price of detective work. Today, the typical gumshoe charges at least $35 an hour for snooping and stakeouts...
DIED. Roddey E. Mims, 46, White House and Capitol Hill photographer for U.P.I. and TIME whose folksy manner and sensitive camera work won him the fondness and respect of leaders from Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey to Ronald Reagan and Howard Baker; of a stroke; in Arlington, Va. Said Reagan: "He's been a part of history for so many years it just won't be the same without...
...virtual unknown when he was elected in 1978 to fill the unexpired term of the late Hubert Humphrey, Durenberger has emerged as a thoughtful moderate Republican and a Senator of skill and character. Although Durenberger has his quarrels with the Administration's economic program, Dayton is trying to make the campaign into a referendum on Reaganomics. Low grain price's and high interest rates are forcing Minnesota farmers to the wall, while the depressed steel industry has led to rising unemployment among iron-ore miners. Calling for increased federal support for wheat and dairy farmers, Dayton quips...