Word: humphreys
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...elected (F.D.R. in 1944, Bush in 2004). Twice, the wars were not going well, and the incumbent party lost (Korea in 1952, with Harry Truman choosing not to run and Dwight Eisenhower beating Adlai Stevenson; and Vietnam in 1968, with Lyndon Johnson withdrawing and Richard Nixon beating Hubert Humphrey...
These precedents look better for John McCain or Rudy Giuliani than for Obama or Clinton. And McCain and Giuliani have an advantage that, say, Vice President Humphrey didn't have in 1968. They aren't much associated with the Bush Administration, and they might be able to turn their election campaign into a referendum on the future. Bush won't be on the ballot--though Democrats will try to wrap him around the neck of the G.O.P. nominee. But that nominee might be able to dodge that bullet, combining strong Commander in Chief credentials with enough of a message...
...rejected over and over.” However, he said he was mistaken in his assumption that management would be different. “I went to Yale for theater management, thinking that it would be more stable,” he said. “But as Humphrey Bogart says in Casablanca, ‘I was misinformed.’” Richenthal, who co-produced the Tony Award-winning play “I Am My Own Wife” and the 2002 production of “The Crucible,” took a less...
...most famous Tarzan--an injury forced him to cede that role to Johnny Weissmuller-- but he was the favorite of Tarzan writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Later, as Bruce Bennett, his stage name, he appeared in such acclaimed films of the 1940s as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Humphrey Bogart, and the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce...
...more common hurdle for a Hepburn heroine was age. Time and again, Hollywood accented her gamine charm by teaming her with male stars who could have been her father. Half of her first dozen leading men were 20 to 30 years older than she: Humphrey Bogart (54 to her 25) in Sabrina, Henry Fonda (51 to her 26) in War and Peace), Astaire (58 to her 28) in Funny Face, Gary Cooper (56 to her 28) in Love in the Afternoon, Cary Grant (59 to her 34) in Charade, Rex Harrison (56 to her 35) in My Fair Lady...