Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week a helicopter augered through the summer air over Dyersburg (pop. 10,900) in West Tennessee, and settled down on the municipal football field. Out stepped U.S. Representative Pat Sutton to greet and meet a crowd of voters. Some had come only because they had never seen a helicopter before, but they stayed to listen. Certainly, none of them had ever seen a political campaign quite like the one Pat Sutton is waging against Estes Kefauver for the Democratic senatorial nomination...
...G.O.P. primary. In 1952, under the old law, 14 candidates won both nominations for the U.S. House of Representatives. Last week, under the new law, only two scored double victories. In 1950 four candidates for top state offices won both nominations. Last week only one-vote-getting Attorney General Pat Brown, the only Democrat holding a major state office -was able to do so. U.S. Senator Thomas Kuchel and Governor Goodwin J. Knight, Republicans, failed to match the double primary victories of Governor Earl Warren in 1946 and U.S. Senator William Knowland...
Hearst's Journal-American read the decision to mean that it could now publish all the secret court transcript, promptly serialized on Page One the testimony of Call Girl Pat Ward. (The J-A thoughtfully substituted "A.G.." "R.M." and other initials for her customers' full names in the interests of "fairness.") But while other Manhattan papers had access to the juicy testimony, they printed not a word of it. They decided it was old stuff because the case had been so thoroughly covered when it was still "secret...
Compromise with Mediocrity. One of the two non-Catholic writers included in the symposium is Jewish Author Will Herberg, who finds U.S. Catholicism today "at its highest point of prestige and spiritual power." But Herberg regrets "a tendency in Catholicism to smile indulgently upon men and pat them on the back, as it were. Catholicism thus comes forward as the friend of man, whereas Protestantism, with its unrelenting emphasis on judgment, sometimes appears as his enemy." Catholics' "spiritual geniality," writes Herberg, often combines with secularism to betray "Catholics into too easy an acquiescence in the banalities, timidities and mediocrities...
...varsity again meets Penn and Navy next week in the Eastern Spring Regatta at Washington. Asked if he would make any changes by then, Coach Harvey Love said, "We just can't stand pat." He did not say whether this meant switching the line-up or improving rowing technique