Word: standin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene's going to work." So Helen Hayes took a good smash from Miss Bisset-and the scene worked. Back in Hollywood, after a 13-year absence, for the filming of Arthur Hailey's bestseller Airport, the great lady of the stage still scorns a standin. In her role as chronic stowaway Ada Quonsett, she even insisted on doing a wrestling scene with the mad bomber, played by Van Heflin. It was something of a reunion for the two veterans, who last worked together in. the film My Son John...
...Standin. Fortas' friendship with the President was not the only objection raised to his confirmation. For some, it was merely a screen to hide their real concern. Some Republicans, hoping for victory in November, do not want Johnson to name anyone to the court for the remainder of his term, since that might deprive a G.O.P. President of the chance to select his own man. Many Southerners dislike the activist trend of the court altogether and see Fortas as a too liberal successor to Warren. As Mississippi's John Stennis complained, "He has clearly shown his alignment with...
Last week Lurleen Burns Wallace, 41, died in her sleep. She had served 16 months as her husband's standin, executing orders that he dictated from a desk across the hallway. She was buried in Montgomery amid military pomp, while a tearful Wallace interrupted his demagogic third-party campaign to mourn. From her deathbed, Lurleen had urged him to keep up his quest for the presidency, though public life as Governor's lady and then as the nation's only lady Governor was never to her taste. "Politics," she once recalled, "was something Daddy discussed...
...Hoosier philosophy, e.g.: "Whenever you hear a man say it's not the money, it's the principle, you can bet it's the money." Branigin himself got into the primary contest as a matter of principle. Lyndon Johnson asked him to run as a presidential standin, and although the Governor was never a Johnson fan, he believed that party loyalty demanded his acceptance. "Here I agree to do it," he says, "and just a few days later [when Johnson pulled out of the race] find myself dropped through a trap door." But Branigin, who cannot...
...June 4 primary ballot. Working all night, his supporters collected more than 28,000 signatures. Being first in with their petitions, they gained the top spot on the ballot for McCarthy-a considerable psychological advantage, since Johnson will be represented in California's primary by a standin, State Attorney General Tom Lynch...