Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personality, according to New York Times reporters roving the Middle West, generally have little appeal. ("Eisenhower is ordinary-like," said a gasoline-station attendant in Oceana County, Mich., "and so is Kefauver.") Expounding on "The Case for the Democrats" in last week's Saturday Evening Post, House Speaker Sam Rayburn managed to write 4,500 words of a 4,700-word article before mentioning the candidate's name. Stevenson's campaign managers are well aware of their problem, are carefully following the "reverse coattails" strategy (TIME, Sept. 10) of linking Stevenson with local candidates and local issues...
...Pollster Sam Lubell, while recognizing the genuine need for G.O.P. worry about the farm vote, also found cause for Republican cheer. Wrote he: "Strong as the uprising is against the Republicans in the rural Midwest, much of its force is being blunted by two feelings. One is a deep sense of gratitude to President Eisenhower for ending the Korean war. The other is a widespread dislike of Adlai Stevenson among farmers, and criticism for his divorce . . . In 1952 among several thousand voters I interviewed, only about a dozen brought up Stevenson's divorce as their reason for voting against...
...what mainly caused that long, discouraging decline? One thing only: political expediency in Washington, D.C. . . . And what were the results? For one, Uncle Sam himself took up farming. Synthetic farmers behind Washington desks started telling farmers all over again what crops to plant, how much to grow ... the prices to charge. You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield . . . The value of the Government stockpile of farm surpluses climbed to $9 billion. The cost of storage alone has been $1,000,000 a day-none...
Hawthorne to Sam Johnson. A typical fifth-grade reader text today "introduces the child to no famous writers whatsoever except as (in the manual for teachers) it suggests supplementary library books." Thus, the modern educationists are actually cheating their pupils. "What makes any child want to read is not only information or a banal story about familiar things and types, but his awakening, if it ever comes, to the . . . freshness and originality of thought and expression, commanded by great masters of prose and poetry...
None of the singing voices is particularly good, but none is bad. Most of the acting is quite adequate. Edith Adams and Peter Palmer fill the leads pleasantly, while Howard St. John's Bullmoose and Stubby Kaye's Marryin' Sam are amusing and refreshing. Although she shows traces of Ethel Merman and a witch from Macbeth, Charlotte Ray proves a good choice for Mammy Yokum. Pappy's role is properly squeaked by J. E. Marks...