Word: mavericks
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...charge of Jersey City's one public bath and its nine employees. Then Kenny canceled out the younger Murray with an obscure candidate also named James Murray Jr. (no middle initial), sent his own man to Congress. Young Jim F. Murray Jr. ran as a maverick for the state senate...
...people will find their own way." By generating heat as well, Scripps-Howard's El Paso Herald-Post (circ. 39,794) has long made its way as one of the chain's most profitable and independent-minded dailies. Under Editor Ed Pooley, a Tabasco-tempered maverick who has run the paper for 20 of his 59 years, the Herald has earned Texas-wide renown as an ardent defender of underdogs, whom Pooley, in deference to the border city's heavy Spanish-speaking population, invariably calls Juan Smiths. On their behalf, Pooley, one of U.S. journalism...
...Says Van Doren: ''I'm a maverick...
Foote has no definite plans yet, but says: "I lean toward my own business or a piece of a medium-size agency." No stranger to change, Maverick Foote in 1948 startled Madison Avenue by giving up American Tobacco's $12 million account-the fattest ever voluntarily relinquished-over a policy disagreement with its management, two years later left Foote, Cone & Belding, which he had helped found, and in 1951 joined McCann-Erickson...
...Diefenbaker's rise to the Tory leadership was not easy. The conservative old guard of the party has always regarded him as something of a misfit in their ranks. Baptist Diefenbaker seemed unsociable; he neither drank nor smoked, and joined none of the Tory clubs. He was a maverick in Parliament, campaigning for a Canadian Bill of Rights similar to that in the U.S. Constitution, and calling for stiffer antitrust laws while the Tory Party stood for pure British tradition and unfettered free enterprise. Even Diefenba-ker's Dutch-origin name did not have a Tory ring...