Word: matte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Republican incumbent: Banker John Hoblitzell, 45, 1956 campaign manager for popular young (35) Republican Governor Cecil Underwood, who was appointed by Underwood to the seat left vacant early this year by the death of Democrat Matt Neely. Hoblitzell is energetic and friendly, but he is also blunt and only a so-so campaigner, admits that he has not cracked the barrier laid out by his Democratic opponent, Glad-Hander Jennings Randolph. At 56, Randolph has served seven terms in Congress, is now a public-relations man for Capital Airlines, rates as one of the state's most effective...
...fertile, unangry mind of a bulky (230 Ibs.), cigar-smoking Swiss burgher with the tastes of a bon vivant, the genial manner of a retired cook. Surrounded by his wife Lotti (once an actress), three children, four dogs and seven cats, 37-year-old Friedrich Düurren-matt churns out his bitter plays from a picture-postcard villa in the green woods overlooking Lake Neuchatel...
...father to the Times. He worked the city's political districts and, in 1938, went to the State Capitol in Albany. There he was a big wheel in amateur theatricals, developed a taste for Scotch and soda and an enduring reputation as a two-fisted drinking man in Matt McCaffrey's saloon (because of his ulcers, doctors now advise against soda, but Hagerty cheats for the forthright reason that "I don't like water"). He also earned a reputation as an industrious, thoroughly competent reporter. In 1940 he joined his father in covering Wendell Willkie...
...climbed steadily up the brass rungs of the Army's ladder since the day in 1929 when he pinned on his shavetail's bars at West Point. General George C. Marshall tagged him as a comer early in World War II. He served with distinction as General Matt Ridgway's deputy commander, jumped with the 82nd Airborne Division on Dday. At 37, succeeding Ridgway as boss of the 82nd, he was the youngest division commander in the U.S. Army...
...room for such a paper." The new management also moved swiftly to cut the payroll, and by week's end had laid off 77 staffers, including 16 newsmen and some 30 truck-drivers. To News employees it was an old story. Just before Christmas last year, Matt McCloskey fired 64 (of 117) editorial staffers...