Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California, Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel squeezed out a narrow score over Congressman Sam Yorty in a campaign characterized by Kuchel's drab speeches and Yorty's attacks on the Administration's "new look" defense policy. Yorty hoped that his cries against cuts in defense spending would help him in Southern California's airplane manufacturing centers, but returns from Los Angeles and San Diego disappointed...
...During the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Freeman fought hard and noisily to throw out the Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana delegations over the party-loyalty resolution. Televiewers will remember him as an excited young man who stood atop his chair sputtering "point of order, point of order," while Sam Rayburn gaveled him down...
Mary Leader looks after the three young Leaders and takes care of Willow Brook's books, clattering out the accounts on her typewriter and balancing the books until midnight, most nights, while George relaxes in front of the TV set. (His favorite performers: Imogene Coca, Sid Caesar, Sam Levenson...
Hearst Reporter Dorothy (What's My Line?) Kilgallen is a practitioner of an old and dying school of U.S. newspaper reporting; she is the leading U.S. sob sister. Last week, covering the Cleveland trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard (TIME, Aug. 30), charged with the murder of his wife Marilyn, Sob Sister Kilgallen demonstrated why she deserves the title-and perhaps why such reporting is a-dying out. Wrote Reporter Kilgallen...
...notably unsuitable for corpse-pointing, askew under his chin. It will take many sessions of court and a multitude of distractions to erase the first brilliantly colored picture flashed on the big white screen in the darkened courtroom at that dreadful matinee. No wonder Dr. Sam cried and would not look. She was beautiful. So lovely, and so bruised. So gentle looking with her eyes closed, sleeping under the vermilion gashes...