Word: prescott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guards are Prescott Evarts (a relocated fullback) and Brian King. Another acquisition from the backfield, Carl Framke, is the starting center. A strong contender for the same position, Gus Alexander, a 6-5, 230 pound behemoth, has been out with injuries for most of the season...
...regular order of business began with an 8:30 breakfast with Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall. After Hall, in rapid order, came California's Senator Bill Knowland, Convention Chairman Joe Martin, Platform Committee Chairman Prescott Bush and a string of others, including Detroit's Mayor Albert Cobo, who is running for governor of Michigan. Dick Nixon's Republican critic, haggard Harold Stassen, appeared on the sixth floor, conferred for an hour and a half with Presidential Staff Chief Sherman Adams before seeing Ike for ten minutes. The immediate aftermath of Stassen's visit: the first live...
...there is a character who can be called central, he is Crooked Creek's Preacher Prescott, who knows that "all of this short life [is] a leavetaking, while you hang on, saying No, not yet." Preacher Prescott, both a Job and a Jeremiah, is summoned to his church in the dead of one night by the clangorous bell-ringing of a white-hating rabble-rouser and finds his inflamed flock already there, armed with guns and ready to shoot it out with a lynch mob of whites that is cruising around the bottom land. The Preacher heads...
Lost Sheep. On another occasion Preacher Prescott averts crisis with sage humor. Facing the task of laying to rest a lost sheep who, by the parson's own count, had smashed every one of the Ten Commandments, Preacher Prescott stands up to deliver a funeral oration over the blackened soul, suddenly bangs shut his Bible and declaims: "Brothers and Sisters, you knowed Charlie. I knowed Charlie. Let's bury him." And so they...
...Morton into trying for the Senate seat now held by Kentucky's Earle Clements, in arranging for Interior Secretary McKay to hit the Oregon trail against Wayne Morse. Among incumbent Republican Senators who can expect Ike's direct aid are Pennsylvania's Duff, Connecticut's Prescott Bush and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...