Word: scrantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia audience why. "The five or six issues we have have become deadly dull," he said. "Newspaper readers want something spicy. As a result, for the want of something better to do, we insult each other." He promptly demonstrated how this is done. Cried he of Republican William Scranton: "I would like to separate him from his skinny behind . . . Do you want a man for Governor who spent his time in the State Department helping the cleaning woman?" Scranton's standard answer: "Sir, you are a desperate...
Republican William W. Scranton defeated Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth to win the Governorship formerly held by Democrat David Lawrence. Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark managed to win re-election over James Van Zandt...
...Scrantonian (geographically only), and well aware of the kinship between TIME and Bill Scranton, I was quite prepared to read a completely biased article [Oct. 19]. Your treatment of both candidates for governorship of Pennsylvania was stunningly unprejudiced...
...Aunt Gert and Uncle Walter Snyder worked for the Scrantons for some 42 years. At Hobe Sound, Fla., one night, a tanker was torpedoed off the coast. The "Duchess," as you called her, and my Aunt Gert and Uncle Walt helped all of the survivors into the elegantly furnished Scranton winter home. About 100 oil-soaked sailors were given blankets, cigarettes, coffee, sandwiches. Mrs. Scranton was up all night helping to make the men comfortable...
Pennsylvania. Joseph S. Clark, one of the Senate's most liberal liberals, appears to have an edge on Republican Congressman James E. Van Zandt, will probably be re-elected unless Republican Gubernatorial Candidate William Scranton (TIME cover, Oct. 19) wins big enough to pull Van Zandt along with...