Word: quipsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting No. 4. Bob Stevens, a man-of-good-will trained in a family textile business, walked with Karl Mundt into the Capitol's room P-54. Later, a Washington quipster observed that when Stevens entered the room, he was "like a goldfish in a tank of barracuda." Meeting No. 4 featured fried chicken, peas, french fries, head-of-lettuce salad and Joe McCarthy. Also present: Dirksen, and later, Potter. Stevens started with a complaint about McCarthy's abuse of Zwicker. Retorted McCarthy: How could the Army explain the court-martialing of "a poor, brainwashed G.I."* in contrast...
...Chicago, where he was greeted by a handful of Democratic notables and Stevenson "volunteers"-including a girl fan who kicked off her shoes so that she wouldn't look taller than her hero. Chicago newsmen, tying Stevenson down to domestic politics, found him still the old quipster...