Word: shearer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting was called by William K. Shearer, 38, a mustachioed, self -described political consultant who headed Wallace's California campaign until they had a falling-out. When the two-day convention broke up, the party treasurer had managed to squeeze out only $75 in contributions. Exclaimed Shearer: "We are on the way to saving America." But about all that was accomplished, in fact, was to elect officers and give the party a title. There may be trouble getting it onto a campaign button. The name: The National Committee of Autonomous State Parties known as the American Independent Party...
...where he can earn a princely $12 per hour denuding sheep, the shearer contributes to the high cost of woolen garments. But the shearer's days of glory may well be numbered...
Armed with electric clippers, an ex -perienced sheep shearer can completely strip the wool from a sheep in three min utes. In Australia, where his specialty is a legendary profession as well as a sheer necessity, a champion shearer soon becomes something of a national hero...
Hugh Lawson Shearer, LL.D., Prime Minister of Jamaica...
...production. A reformed clothing manufacturer and failed actor, Bob Evans invaded the Hollywood hierarchy like a character from a '30s scenario. The co-founder of the fashion firm Evan-Picone, Evans was lounging by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel one day in 1956, when Norma Shearer gave him the eye; she just knew that he was the ideal man to play her late husband, Irving Thalberg, in a movie called The Man of a Thousand Faces. For three years Evans sleepwalked his way through the kind of pretty-boy roles that George Hamilton now gets, then went...