Word: nebraska
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Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, 32. A farm-belt Unitarian and soft-spoken intellectual, Ted Sorensen was introduced to his first political audience at the age of six as the son of Nebraska's Republican attorney general. First in his class at the University of Nebraska law school, he worked for the Federal Security Agency in Washington, joined the staff of freshman Senator Kennedy in 1953. They found keen enjoyment in a common intellectual approach to politics, collaborated on Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. Together, they traveled through every state from 1956 to 1960, compiled a detailed, 30,000-name...
CEREMONY IN LONE TREE, by Wright Morris (304 pp.; Atheneum; $4), is set in the barren Nebraska plains country, where the author stalks his favorite game -the "Sears Roebuck Gothic" Midwesterners with souls imprisoned like "buzzing flies" in "God's cocoon." Morris has been compared variously to Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, even Mickey Spillane, but in this, his 13th book, he sounds more like a kind of slick-paper Nathanael West, without that gifted writer's savage humor. His story is wired to the tangled nerve ends of the collection of oddballs and misfits who stumbled...
...hard-up Nebraska farmer and a schoolteacher mother, Walter Judd earned his way through the University of Nebraska as a dishwiper. got a Phi Beta Kappa and an M.D. ('23). Young Dr. Judd then sailed to China as a medical missionary for the Congregational Church, was almost killed by malaria and by Communist rebels. He came back to the U.S. in 1938 to preach of the peril of Japanese expansion, made 1,400 speeches in two years urging the U.S. to stop sending war supplies to the Japanese. "I spent my time taking American scrap out of Chinese...
Liniment & Snake Weed. He went to Arizona, then to Oklahoma and Kansas, where he had to beg for food. He tried being a cowboy in Wyoming, a homesteader in Nebraska, a farm hand in Missouri and a stock farmer in Texas-all attempts petered out. In Arkansas, where he worked as a bullwhacker, he came down with malaria, which he tried to treat with a patent medicine called Orang Utan Liniment and teas brewed from rattlesnake weed. At 45 he bought a ranch in the Panhandle that quickly became part of the great Dust Bowl. Finally, in 1946 he turned...
...cross-country reconnaissance in force. In the Oregon primary last week, the youthful Bostonian gave U.S. Senator Wayne Lyman Morse the drubbing of his political life and registered his seventh straight primary victory-the final one on his schedule. In the seven triumphs (New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Indiana, West Virginia, Nebraska, Maryland and Oregon), Jack Kennedy was the favorite of 1,500,000 voters, added some 330 committed delegate votes* to his convention strength. More important, by campaigning the hard, primary way, he had buried a number of bugaboos, had established himself, as he said he would, as the undisputed leading...