Word: mckellar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RUSTY MCKELLAR...
Twenty baseball cards, including a Mickey Mantle, are on their way to Reader McKellar (no doubles...
...another face don't you think I'd use it?"), hunched (5 ft. 7 in., 142 Ibs.) Clarence Cannon is perhaps the House's most unpopular member, has had fist fights with at least three colleagues; Tennessee's equally terrible-tempered Senator, the late Kenneth McKellar, once threatened to gavel Cannon's head during a conference committee hearing. But he is also the House's hardest-working member (roughly, from 10 a.m. to midnight seven days a week) and one of its ablest. Brought to Washington in 1911 as aide to Speaker Champ Clark, Lawyer Cannon became parliamentarian, began compiling...
...Mason-Dixon. But at vote-counting time in the as-good-as-elected Democratic primary late last week, Albert Gore was renominated with 60% of the total, and swamped Cooper-watermelons, manifestoes and all-under a bigger vote than he dredged up to overturn the late Kenneth D. McKellar...
Died. Kenneth Douglas McKellar, 88, longtime (36 years) hell-raising Democratic Senator from Tennessee, self-styled "Big Uncle" of the TVA; of old age; in Memphis. Relentless in his prejudices, vicious in his vendettas, he used his chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee to browbeat his colleagues into line; popular in his home state, he was a head-bowing yesman to Memphis' late Boss Edward H. Crump, was beaten for a seventh term...