Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Beauregard Claghorn (Kenny Delmar), a julep-slupping burlesque of a Southern politico, a latter-day Civil Warrior with a mouth as big as the Mississippi's and a brain the size of a hominy grit. The Senator's development has been arrested in an artistic sense, too. After only six minutes on the air (four programs), his "That's a joke, son!" and "That is" were national bywords. Allen, who intended the Senator to have a far larger comic vocabulary, has been forced to give the public what it wants: plenty of nothing...
...Iowa storekeeper named Daniel David Palmer, has flourished for 52 years in spite of considerable hell (from the A.M.A.) & high water. It now has some 30,000 U.S. practitioners, is recognized in 44 of the 48 states. (It is illegal, but is practiced nonetheless, in New York, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Louisiana...
...gravy train made another Mississippi whistle stop. Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo finally came across with the $100,000 church and parsonage he had been promising constituents ever since 1928. About 10,000 of them, flivvered down to Juniper Grove to get in on the 3,000-lb. beef barbecue. The Man had offered to let the whole 80th Congress come along in a body, but everybody seemed to have previous engagements. The Rev. Gerald L K. Smith showed up, though, to say that Bilbo was "the most persecuted man in the world." The Man himself wasn...
...atomic supervision, you might find the No. 2 Communist state's opinion on the atomic bomb also noteworthy. No. 2, of course, is Communist China, which, in the words of Anna Louise Strong, has "an area almost equal to that part of the United States east of the Mississippi River." As Anna Louise left Yenan this week, after a sympathetic stint of several months, she had "the privilege of a final talk with Mao Tse-tung...
...fairies and other imaginary characters. But those of us who want to talk about our own environment here find it inadequate. You can't say it in terms of entrechats and pirouettes. It's as though you wanted to say something about the Grand Canyon or the Mississippi and had to do it in the French language...