Word: jims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is one of those mornings," rumbled Big Jim Duff cheerfully, "when it's a pleasure to get out of bed." Pennsylvania's strapping governor was as relaxed as a man who hadn't yet gotten up. In the Capitol at Harrisburg, his long legs were draped over the edge of his massive circular desk. He had just clobbered the G.O.P.'s Old Guard in last week's primaries...
...weeks ago, Big Jim rattled the teeth of the conservative Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association with a suggestion that industry ought to cut prices (TIME, March 8). Then he served blunt notice on the Old Guard that he would swing as much of the state's 73-man convention delegation as he could behind a progressive Republican presidential candidate...
...returns were in, Favorite Son Martin had run a poor third behind Harold Stassen (whose backers had bucked hard for him) and Tom Dewey (who had waged no campaign at all). Not only had Taylor been renominated; throughout the state Duff's candidates for convention delegates had won. Jim Duff concluded, tentatively, that some 60 of the delegates, perhaps more, would vote with...
...Thorndike and Bob Forsyth can shut out Scot Johnson for second and third in the hammer. If Lockett, Lawrence, and Torrey can outvault the equally-good trio of Eustis, Bensley, and Larsen. If high-jumpers Gene Harrigan and Mary Jenkins can stay up there with Jim Keyes. If Sam Felton can split Frank and Bowers in the discus. If Thayer, Kumple, and Carter can beat Yale's brilliant but erratic broad-jumper Nathan Bundy (he hit 23 feet, 6 inches last week against Princeton). If sore-armed Don Trimble can take at least one javelin throw to prevent the Elis...
...Jim Thorn, who bashed out a triple, Leverett edged Dunster in yesterday's only intramural baseball tilt, 5 to 4. Both teams, short of legitimate House players, used ringers by mutual agreement. In softball, Bill Johnson's one-hitter assisted Eliot to an easy 8 to 0 win over Adams...