Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sticks and it chokes," replied Nixon), and Chicagoans as well as the Republican conventioneers tore loose in a huge, cacophonous reception that visibly left Ike bubbling. In the quiet of his suite, Ike and Mamie got together with the Nixons for a photo fest and a few informal greetings. (Pat Nixon, shaking Mamie's hand, said, "I shook 3,000 hands of women yesterday." Cracked Mamie with mock solicitude as she withdrew her own hand: "Well, then, don't bother with mine.") When the preliminaries were over, Nixon briefed the President on the course of the platform construction...
...with his hands in the dishpan." Up from the dishpans, Dick worked doggedly through Whittier College and then went on to Duke University Law School on a scholarship (he eked out his scholarship by rooming in a ramshackle farmhouse). Back in Whittier, he met and married Pat Ryan, a pretty red-headed schoolteacher who, if anything, had come along an even more hardscrabble road (TIME cover, Feb. 29). After naval service in the Pacific during World War II, Lieut. Commander Nixon found himself in Baltimore, wondering, like many another young veteran, what to do with himself. He caught wind...
Dick Nixon applied for the job, got the nod from the committee of 100, and plunged into the campaign with pile-driving energy, $5,000 in savings-and an all-out assist from Pat. He won in a breeze over the New Dealing Democratic incumbent. Congressman Jerry Voorhis. Nixon's headline-making investigations of the Communist conspiracy in Government and his unmasking of Alger Hiss catapulted him to national fame and a Senate seat in 1950. Two years later, as one of the earliest and most enthusiastic ad mirers of Dwight Eisenhower, Nixon became Ike's running mate...
...Pat Brown, California's Governor, won the long-sticking epithet "Tower of Jelly" because he could not make up his mind which game to play-"Back-Jack" or "Favorite Son." After it was too late to matter, an aide reported facetiously that Pat had just conducted another of his famous sidewalk polls. "He wants to find out whether we should support Albert Schweitzer or Fidel Castro for the vice-presidency." Robert Meyner, the handsome New Jersey Governor who is barred by law from a third term, insisted on running as a favorite son against the manifold pleas and pressures...
Died. E. Maurice ("Buddy") Adler, 52, Darryl Zanuck's successor as Twentieth Century-Fox production boss in 1956, an astute judge and developer of new talent, including Joanne Woodward and Pat Boone, the producer of such box-office hits as Love Is a Many-Splendor~ed Thing, The Diary of Anne Frank, South Pacific and Columbia's 1953 Academy Award-winning From Here to Eternity; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Told by Fox President Spyros Skouras in 1957, "I'm giving you $53 million; let's see what you can do with it this year," Adler...