Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mister Crump was ready for anything. For the governorship, he would run incumbent Jim McCord, no ball of fire but a man of considerable personal popularity. For the senatorship, he wanted a man with a war record to match Gordon Browning's. Thus eliminated from consideration as a Crump candidate, Tom Stewart bravely announced last week that he would run for re-election anyway. Snapped Ed Crump: "Stewart will be going around in circles, not knowing the directions, north, east, south, or west...
...Even wily, oldtime Yanqui-Baiter Arnulfo Arias, now campaigning for President (TIME, Dec. 8), had plumped for the deal on grounds that the 600 miles of good roads the U.S. was building to link the bases were just what Panama's underdeveloped interior needed. Besides, President Enrique Adolfo Jiménez had the votes to guarantee National Assembly approval for the agreement...
...Jim Williams had tried just about everything - cowpuncher, railroad fireman, mule skinner, tattooer, prize fighter, machinist. None of these tries had brought him much of a living. In his spare time in smelly bunkhouses, roundhouses and ma chine shops, he had even drawn cartoons. One day he sent N.E.A. a drawing of a fire chief too fat to get out of his chair for an alarm. N.E.A. wired him from Cleveland to come in. When Williams got back home to Alliance, Ohio, he had a contract to draw cartoons...
Plain & Fancy. At 59, grey Jim Williams is as pale and paunchy as one of his machine-shop characters. He lives, somewhat apologetically, in a fancy 2O-room Tudor mansion with a $30,000 swimming pool in San Marino, Calif. He sits down at his drawing board as early as 6 a.m. and waits, with a fisherman's patience, for an idea to strike. Sometimes it takes hours. When he really gets one hooked, he finishes a panel in a hurry. If the fishing is good, he can polish off four panels in a morning...
...Jim Williams would rather chin with old cronies than work, so he sometimes falls behind schedule, despite prodding from his wife. Then his old cartoons reappear, "redrawn by request." "I couldn't work without talking to people," says Williams defensively. "I always have people here-cattlemen from Texas, publishers from New York, workingmen from Detroit. They kid me when they see me in this big house-I'm pretty untidy and I wear sweaters and jackets. Looks funny to see someone like me in this place." And sometimes the cowhands get a little mad about Williams' making...