Word: missourian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could appoint the next President, I would pick Humphrey." The partisans of Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey were delighted (although Harriman can sway few of New York's 114 convention votes) and flabbergasted: they had assumed that because Harry Truman was backing the candidacy of Fellow-Missourian. Stuart Symington, Harriman would naturally fall in line with his great friend and onetime sponsor Truman. ¶ Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy, co-chairman of the presidential campaign of his fellow Minnesotan, Senator Hubert Humphrey, was asked why he did not scuttle Humphrey and run himself. Grinned McCarthy: "That...
...Truman listed Fellow Missourian Stu Symington as his first choice, Johnson as his second. Rayburn was naturally partial to Fellow Texan Johnson, but placed Symington a palatable second...
...insisted from the start that a Mizzou journalism student devote some 75% of his curriculum to the liberal arts and sciences, a requirement still in effect and now the standard for most schools. To give his students practical training, Newsman Williams mortgaged his house, set up the Columbia Missourian, a daily largely written and edited by students under faculty supervision, which competes in Columbia (pop. 45,000) with the Tribune, trails its opposition in paid circulation (4,062 v. 10,120) but not in zeal...
...decide matters for the Chamber of Commerce. At a city council meeting the C. of C. suggests, and the council approves, that the new $1,500,000 road connecting U.S. Highway 40 and the university stadium be named after Caniff, who is not an alumnus or even a Missourian (he was born in Hillsboro, Ohio). It is further decided that large cutouts of Miss Mizzou, dimpled knee poking through her trench coat, shall mark Caniff Boulevard...
Turn to Trouble. On the Malecón, the danger more familiar to Fangio began to haunt his fellow racers as they whirled into the long (315 miles) grind. Britain's Stirling Moss took the lead in a Ferrari, Missourian Masten Gregory, driving another Ferrari, was second. Fangio's Maserati, in Trintignant's hands, fell far back to 13th place. By the end of five laps, all the drivers saw that almost every turn was slick with spilled oil; they knew that they were in for trouble...