Word: tennessean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scott's handicaps was his age. Some Republicans thought that Baker, who is 25 years younger than Scott, would project a more youthful and agreeable image of the Senate G.O.P. But electing the Tennessean, who only came to the Senate in 1967, would violate senatorial traditions of seniority. Some moderates were also fearful that elevating Baker, who has consistently voted with the Administration, would seem to add a cog to the Nixon-Thurmond "Southern strategy...
Dashes, asterisks and euphemisms are still the way out chosen by most editors. But "if the image of the word is already formed in the mind of the reader," says John Seigenthaler, editor of the Nashville Tennessean, "you might as well use the word. We have the responsibility of getting over to the reader exactly what was said. We should say what we have to say in this society and say it accurately...
...humanitarian, an authentic and effective liberal who can be depended upon to lead the nation in ways of peace." And Humphrey is the choice of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which lauds his "courage to speak up for one America." The Atlanta Constitution, Arkansas Gazette, Denver Post and Nashville Tennessean have also urged Humphrey's election and the traditionally Democratic papers of Louisville-the Courier-Journal and the Times-probably will, too. The Washington Post does not intend to back anyone, but its cartoonist, Herblock, fills the editorial pages with sketches of the old "tricky Dick...
...turn of the year. Neither Bobby nor Jackie wanted to read it because, as a friend said, it would be "far too painful." But they farmed out copies to five close friends, most notably John Seigenthaler, an ex-Justice Department aide who is now editor of the Nashville Tennessean, and Edwin Guthman, a former aide of Bobby's who is now national news editor of the Los Angeles Times...
...school. She got a job with a stock company in Sussex, later went on to the Royal Academy and the Old Vic. In 1952, Moss Hart brought her to the U.S. in The Climate of Eden. While working in a Wellesley, Mass., repertory company, she met Ellis Rabb, a Tennessean who had studied acting at Carnegie Tech. They got married, and a month later Rabb launched the APA and remains its strong guiding hand...