Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provided some unintentional comic relief. Arguing that it was unsporting to hold Mrs. Luce's old political speeches against her, Orator Dirksen cried: "Why thrash old hay or beat an old bag of bones?" As the galleries guffawed, Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey played for laughs. "I must rise to the defense of the lady," he said...
Meanwhile, the news wires were already humming with Clare Luce's own terse comeback at Wayne Morse. "I am grateful for the overwhelming vote of confirmation in the Senate," she stated. "We must now wait until the dirt settles. My difficulties, of course, go some years back and began when Senator Wayne Morse was kicked in the head by a horse...
Sergeant Nolen squinted through his spotterscope at two Communist observation towers on the opposite side, talked to a TIME correspondent about the 19 East Germans who recently escaped into his sector. "Gives me the creeps, this place." muttered one of Nolen's men. "What a helluva life it must be on the other side...
Scare the Guests. As the bold Brown strategists see things, Brown must, as a minimum, keep the Golden State's massive delegation in hand until the right candidate comes along, or until Brown can dicker for the vice-presidential nomination. But when they let their dreams balloon, they note that 1) the Democratic convention will be in Los Angeles, Brown's front yard, 2) the Democratic convention is threatened by deadlock. So why not California's Pat Brown for President? Brown has agreed that he would accept a draft...
Massachusetts' Kennedy is ahead. He is confident of winning primaries in Wisconsin and Oregon, but is loath to tangle in California unless he must. On the other hand, there is no room on Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy's ticket for Catholic Brown. In Los Angeles last week Kennedy pooh-poohed the notion that he would oppose a favorite son. But Kennedy is aware that he will have to win the nomination early to win at all, may be tempted to change his mind, and go after California's 76 votes...