Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state, found Herman had ample campaign money and was pulling far ahead. Listening to his friends' pleas, Walter George made a painful decision. He withdrew before the primary, accepted a post as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Herman stomped over Old Foe Melvin Thompson with a 376,000 majority and a grand slam of the county unit votes...
...Gotcha. His ground well prepared in advance, Subcommittee Counsel William E. Gerber of Memphis, a tough-looking, cigar-chewing product of the Crump machine, started digging for the kind of pay dirt that makes headlines. Presenting President C. Melvin Sharpe of the District board of education with a stack of papers and statistics he had not had a chance to read, Gerber started firing leading questions (and got his witness so befuddled that he once stated he agreed with Gerber's "testimony"), finally pried out an admission that "present events indicate if we had been more moderate we would...
...proved himself not only a far more polished platform performer but a better vote-getter than his late father, gallus-snapping Old Gene. Ex-Governor Talmadge, running for the U.S. Senate seat of the retiring Walter George, piled up a four-to-one margin over onetime Acting Governor Melvin Thompson, in the process carried every one of the state's 159 counties-a feat his daddy could never match. Winning an election at a relatively early age in a state accustomed to sticking with its Senators, this new breed of white-supremacy demagogue could well be a fixture...
That Certain Feeling (Paramount) is a movie adaptation of the 1954 Broadway hit, King of Hearts, by Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke, a comedy that screened its thin plot behind an electrical display of wisecracks. Hollywood has added twice as many writers (Norman Panama, Melvin Frank, I.A.L. Diamond, William Altman) and got a corresponding increase in plot and even a few more jokes...
...George W. Bengert, 57, became president of Norwich Pharmacal Co., succeeding Melvin C. Eaton, 65, son of a founder, who moved up to board chairman. Born in New Jersey and educated in the Middletown, N.Y. public schools, Bengert graduated from Columbia University in 1922, soon afterward joined Norwich as a research chemist, moved steadily up. Chemist Bengert's hobbies: driving a Thunderbird, working in the Boy Scouts and American Legion...