Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inattentiveness of California's voters produced one odd result. Grey-haired, mother-looking Bernadette Doyle, noisy and self-proclaimed Communist who ran on a nonpartisan ticket, gathered in close to 400,000 votes. The state job which Communist Doyle sought but did not get: State Superintendent of Public Instruction...
...after the Democratic nomination for governor, sat in a Santa Fe friend's house wondering what to do next. Also wondering were at least 13 other Spanish-Americans who ran against "Anglo" candidates and lost. For the first time in years, New Mexico's Democratic ticket would be virtually Anglo. Heading the list: for governor, a run-of-the-platform politician named John E. Miles...
...Ticket to Tomahawk. The first trip of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler (minus 40 miles of track) in the Colorado Rockies; played for laughs by Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter (TIME...
Married. Renee Carroll, fortyish, Manhattan's taffy-haired, mink-coated No. 1 hatcheck girl, since opening day in 1927 queen of the cloakroom at Sardi's restaurant; and Louis Schonceit, 50, Broadway ticket broker and show backer; he for the second time; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...
Died. William Lemke, 71, eight-term U.S. Congressman from North Dakota (he listed himself as "nonpartisan, elected on the Republican ticket"), co-sponsor of 1934's much-debated Frazier-Lemke Farm-Mortgage Act, 1936 presidential candidate of the short-lived Union Party founded by Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith (he polled 882,479 votes); in Fargo...