Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet little (pop. 1,379) town of Whitney, in the rolling hills of central Texas, U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson last week made his first political speech since he was stricken with a heart attack last July. To the 1,510 Texans at a Democratic fund-raising dinner in the Whitney high school gymnasium, the most absorbing word from Johnson was his call for unity and loyalty among Texas Democrats, who switched to Dwight Eisenhower by the thousands in 1952. But another facet of the Senate majority leader's speech alerted politicians in Washington and all over the U.S. Serving...
Second Look. Not until 1937, when the Federal Government built 1.200 miles of low-cost rural lines, did most of sparsely settled Stevens County (pop. 19,500) get any electricity at all. The privately owned Washington Water Power Co., which served a few Stevens County towns, had been unable during the Depression to finance the job. To get even cheaper rates, once the tax-paid lines were built. Stevens County formed a Public Utilities District -one of 23 county government electrification systems in the State of Washington's 39 counties...
When he was five the family moved to his father's second pastorate in the little (pop. 6,635) town of McMinnville, Ore. One Sunday there, Ted sat in church listening to an evangelist his father had invited to preach. "He finished, and he asked for true believers to come forward," says Adams. "Without even knowing I was doing it, I stood up and I saw my father standing there waiting. It was only three or four steps up there, but even as a six-year-old I thought to myself that they were terribly important steps...
...Halberstam was Managing Editor of the CRIMSON last year. At present he is the reportorial and photographic staff of the West Point, Miss (pop. 7000) Dally Times-Leader. His analysis of Mississippi politics appeared in a recent issue of the Reporter magazine, and his account of Negro voting is scheduled for next week's issue. This article is the first of a series complied from letter to his brother, Michael J. Halberstam...
...Serkin's eight-year-old son Peter suffers little from such retarded appreciation of music. Recently, after hearing his father and other musicians repeat the last movement of a Mozart concerto at a chamber-music concert as a joyous encore, Peter worriedly asked Serkin: "Gee, Pop, who goofed...