Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressman and an excellent campaigner. Catholic Jack Kennedy has spent the last year charming Massachusetts' voters, lately at tea parties organized by women Democrats. They brew a big dish of tea, invite scores of citizens to meet his mother and his pretty sisters. Then Jack shows up to shake hands. The "internationalist" son of "isolationist" Businessman Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (1937-40), Jack has deep family roots in Massachusetts politics: his maternal grandfather, John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald, was twice elected mayor of Boston, served three terms...
...rangy. When they are afoot, U.S. generals are expected to stride, not amble; Clark strides. In the European theater, fraternization with troops was a vogue; Clark went swimming and played baseball with soldiers. He takes care always to ask his jeep driver's name, and to shake his hand. Accessibility was another vogue; Clark had the inevitable sign on his door that read: "Enter, don't knock...
...little before 7:30 the next morning, Eisenhower and a few of his aides clambered into an American Airlines DC-6. First stop in Texas was Denison (pop. 18,000), where Ike rode slowly down the main street in a green Chrysler convertible through crowds that pushed out to shake his hand. In the town's East Side, just across the Missouri-Kansas-Texas R.R. tracks, the motorcade stopped before a cheap, two-story, white clapboard house, whose front gate bears the sign "Eisenhower's Birthplace." At Forest Park, he made a brief, nostalgic talk about his homecoming...
When terrible-tempered Louis Ruppel resigned under fire as editor of Collier's last month, few top editors longed for his job. In the last eight years, Collier's has had so many shake-ups that its editor's chair is the hottest seat in magazine publishing. This week, into the hot seat went one of the company's own men, Roger Dakin, 47, articles editor of Crowell-Collier's Woman's Home Companion...
...most active of all is Exposition Press, a Manhattan publishing house which issued 203 books last year, ranked sixth among U.S. publishers in number of new titles. None of its books sold widely, but Exposition's authors got a better shake than the history of vanity publishing gave them a right to expect...