Word: missourian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courtly Missourian has been helping Democrats out of jams for three decades. Last week elegant, silver-haired Clark Clifford, sometimes peering through a pince-nez, was at the side of pudgy, rumpled Bert Lance, carefully guiding him through the thicket of charges and questions. As Lance read his occasionally theatrical opening statement, Co-Author Clifford silently mouthed the words along with him. At one point the Senators paused in their rambling cross-examination to ask Clifford's expert help in interpreting a loan agreement that had been signed by his client. Clifford was the coolest and best-prepared person...
Board Chairman Miller, now 65, is an energetic Missourian who came to the chain's Rochester headquarters in 1947 as executive assistant to Frank Gannett after an editorial career with Oklahoma papers and the Associated Press, where he rose from night filing editor in Columbus to Washington bureau chief in only ten years. Miller collects dailies for Gannett with the enthusiasm of a kid amassing marbles, and journalism may well remember him in newspaper terminology as the "Rochester Acquirer." Because he travels so much for both Gannett and the A.P. (which elected him its president in 1963 and chairman...