Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney, 78, Wyoming Democrat and U.S. Senator for 25 years until his retirement in 1960 who left Massachusetts for a career as a Cheyenne newspaperman, rose in politics as a supporter of F.D.R.'s New Deal and a bitter enemy of business monopoly, carrying on his Senate debates with such flowery forensics that he became known as "the most deliberative member of the world's most deliberative body"; in Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital...
...surprising victories in contests for state and local offices, made some respectable showings elsewhere. In three counties in North Carolina, G.O.P. candidates swept every major contested office, upsetting the speaker of the state legislature's lower house in a contest for a state senate seat. In South Carolina, Newspaperman William D. Workman Jr., who joined the Republican Party only a year ago, gathered 43% of the votes for U.S. Senator in a race against Incumbent Olin Johnston. In the Texas gubernatorial contest, Republican Jack Cox lost to Democrat John B. Connally, former Navy Secretary in the Kennedy Administration...
...There were off-screen sporting events: Tom Mix once was sent to the carpet in a flying tackle by an autograph hound; Cartoonist George McManus unscrewed a button marked "Press" from a men's room urinal, affixed it to his lapel and crashed a swank party as a newspaperman. But of more lasting interest was the hotel's impeccable service, a concept originally executed by, and credited to. the Beverly Hills's Hernando Courtright, who bought the hotel in 1943. Current owner Ben Silberstein, who took over ten years later, has sedulously maintained the tradition. The Beverly...
Death in the Dark. Two men had been killed, both of them noncombatants gunned down in the darkness of the campus. Paul Guihard, a French newspaperman representing Agence France-Presse, was shot in the back while covering the battle. An Oxford workman named Ray Gunter was shot in the forehead while merely watching it. A total of 166 marshals, 30% of all those sent to Oxford, suffered injuries or wounds, along with some 40 soldiers and National Guardsmen...
Naked Horseman. By 1841, when James Gordon Bennett Jr. was born, his father was on his way to becoming rich. The boy was raised like an Asiatic prince, and the training took firm hold; he lived like one for the rest of his life. Onetime Newspaperman (New York Mirror) Richard O'Connor tells his story well in this appropriately slapdash biography...