Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane before the welcoming committee arrived. And then there was added bustle: Lady Bird had not been expected (there are only six bedrooms in the Kennedy house, and present or invited - besides Jack - were Jackie, the new baby, Daughter Caroline, and Joe and Rose Kennedy). Next, gruff old Sam Rayburn, the "Speakah," as the Kennedys called him, flew in from Bonham, Texas in the Kennedy family plane...
...when Kennedy ordered them out for one of his frequent rounds of golf- (no pictures, please, ordered Kennedy's aides). With security agents lurking with gun and radio in the rough, the group pounded away, but flatly refused to disclose their scores. Word got around that when Mr. Sam beheld Johnson's first drive, he said hell, he could do as well as that...
Greeting Mr. Sam later, three-year-old Caroline observed that "you haven't got a hair on your head." Replied Mr. Sam: he hoped Caroline would do as well with all her locks as he had done with no hair. Caroline seemed satisfied with that, and then sought out Lyndon Johnson to discover whether the master political craftsman knew how to make sand pies. Disappointingly, he didn't. One morning Sam Rayburn also tried his hand at fishing off the Palm Beach seawall with little Joe Kennedy, Bobby's son, caught eight fish...
...Sam Clemens' father was a restless frontiersman, always dreaming of wealth and never finding it. The boy loathed school in Hannibal, Mo. As he later let Huck Finn put it: "At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired, I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up." Clemens himself fled school by the time...
...Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). With Sam Levene as Larry Fay, a Capone alumnus who muscled into a milk monopoly, and June Havoc as Sally Kansas, the sassy grande dame of Chicago speakeasies...