Word: jim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa threatened a general strike if Congress passes a labor reform bill (TIME, June 1) Editorial Cartoonist Jim Dobbins, 34, of the Sunday Boston Herald (circ. 293,904), drew the tough trucker as a club-carrying cave man guarding a skull-littered tunnel labeled "Truck Route, U.S.A...
...Jim Dobbins, a frequent baiter of labor bosses though an American Newspaper Guild member himself, quite plainly saw his own responsibility, sat down at his drawing board and, with his characteristic heavy-lined style ("I can't draw tiny lines-I'm six feet four"), once again exposed Jimmy in his bearskin (see cut). Said Dobbins. "I'm pleased that I scored-he seemed such a hard guy to penetrate with ridicule...
...will trip to Moscow. From then on he will be Nixon's press secretary through the 1960 campaign.* And if 1960 should be Richard Nixon's year, Herb Klein might well be expected to move on to the White House as the successor to Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty...
Blodgett, vaulting with a borrowed pole, managed a third-place tie in the pole vault at 13 feet. Varsity hammer thrower Jim Doty, after a horrendous qualifying effort of 159 ft., 9 in. on Friday had put him in the finals by half an inch, came through with a 172 ft., 2 1/2 in. heave on Saturday to take fifth. Doty also had to use borrowed equipment, and like many others he staggered out of a 7:30 a.m. exam Friday morning before flying to New York for the trials...
Crimson cptain Albie Gordon put the mile relay quartet in the finals with a blistering 47.5 anchor leg that brought the team from fifth to third. In the finals, he overhauled Yale's Jim Stack, to take fifth, topping a day of futility for the Bulldogs and giving the varsity its final point of the afternoon...