Word: oratorically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The move, when consummated, will put scholarly, competent Heinrich von Bren-tano in a commanding if not certain position to lead the Christian Democratic Party once Adenauer retires or dies. A tense, chain-smoking bachelor of solemn mien, Brentano is the scion of a Frankfurt family that for two centuries...
Personality: Six feet two, known as "Burly Bob to constituents, Menzies looks every inch the statesman. A renowned, mellifluous, graceful and witty orator, he disdains speechwriters, has immense personal courage and an effective way with interjectors (Australian for hecklers). Once, after delivering a speech in a 103° fever, he...
Langlie, no flaming orator, had an oratorical flourish or two to rival a Clement. The Democrats, he said, have a heritage of "colossal mismanagement and corruption . . . For 20 years [they] subsisted only from one crisis to another−some real, some imaginary, some fabricated...
Minnesota's Hubert Horatio Humphrey. He has patched together his state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor organization after its stunning primary defeat by Estes Kefauver, is now edging back toward the center of the national stage. St. Paul's Representative Eugene McCarthy (no kin to Joe) has begun...
Credentials: Big (6 ft., 195 Ibs.), warm and friendly ("Just call me Frank"), a corn-shucking orator whose words cascade like bursts of fireworks, he adds a rich helping of religion to every speech ("If a man's religion and politics don't mix, there is something wrong...