Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support, had. moreover, been wooing Kefauver delegates. In Chicago, when Harriman's national campaign director, Loyd Benefield, got wind of the Kefauver abdication, he worked around the clock to corral Kefauver strays, wound up with some success in such farm states as Minnesota, Wisconsin. Iowa. Iowa Democratic Chairman Jake More, Kefauverite leader of the 48-man convention delegation, announced that he was switching to Harriman. And by some mysterious magic, Harriman's convention strategist, ex-National Chairman Frank McKinney, arrived at the conclusion that Harriman would still get 450 on the first ballot...
...Party's field of presidential hopefuls. His timing could hardly have been better; Kefauver and Stevenson were slugging each other into exhaustion, however temporary, and political leaders in both North and South, pending the outcome in California, were quietly looking over dark horses. Said Illinois' National Committeeman Jake Arvey, a steadfast Stevenson man: "All around the country I heard that Symington is the front-runner among the dark horses. Of course Stevenson would have to be stopped first...
...lines of the cast at the beginning are often facetious and sometimes excruciatingly funny. After the introduction, however, the players settle down in their roles, and though they never lose spontaneity, they appear to hack around much less. The development of the story, written by Arlene Grimes, Jake Severance, and Mary Carleton, is conventional, but Earle Edgerton's staging shows several imaginative touches. The songs are never really captivating, except for "You Gotta Work for Your Wishes," and "Flowers Are Dancing A Minuet," the theme-song finale which the Children's Theatre has used for its last three shows...
...three, the one house in Baltimore and the two in Detroit. Shubert also owns 50% of the United Booking Office, the only agency through which producers can arrange nationwide tours. Last week, in the final act of a six-year-long Government antitrust suit (during which Lee Shubert died), Jake Shubert gave in. He signed another of Trustbuster Stanley Barnes's growing list of consent decrees (TIME, Feb. 6) agreeing to 1) sell or lease four legitimate houses in New York and six more in other cities, 2) sell his interest in the United Booking Office...
...Hemingway-type hero is no Jake, no Lieut. Henry, but the saddest of fictional sad sacks, called, of all things, Tyree Shelby. Soon Hemingway-type philosophy is being fed to him. Says Shelby's drunken C.O.: "You can't escape the sonsofbitches and the only choice you got is between sonsofbitches." Does the Hemingway manner work? Paraphrasing the remark Churchill is supposed to have made to his son Randolph ("Haven't you learned yet that I put more into my speeches than brandy?"), Papa Hemingway might well remind young (30) Novelist Hoffman that more goes into...