Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calls "spizzerinctum." Typical spizzerinctum: "When you come to the end of the road, what you and I want to hear is the Great Scoutmaster reaching down the hand of comradeship and saying 'Come on up higher. You did a swell job down there on earth . . .' " By the time all the spizzerincta were spizzed out, Mayor Sensenbrenner was out of office. Winner, to everybody's surprise but his own, was lackluster Wallace Ralston Westlake, 52, independent Republican city council president. Westlake made a colorless "nice guy" campaign for better city leadership, was helped immeasurably by voter irritation over...
Philadelphian (he keeps an apartment in the city, a home at Valley Forge). Result: Stassen became one of the most soundly defeated Republican candidates in Philadelphia history-433,298 to 227,742. Said Childe Harold: Philadelphians had not voted against him, but merely shown "their unwillingness at this time to accept my program." Cried he: "I'll never give up my participation in political affairs...
Paul Butler of South Bend, Ind., the scrappy, unloved chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has an extraordinary instinct for survival. His enemies in the party have tried time and again to unseat him, but they have never succeeded. Now the anti-Butlerites are attempting to scare him out by withholding and refusing funds for the committee. Result: the national committee is in financial straits, is two months behind in the rent for its Washington headquarters, forced to beg for day-to-day handouts to meet the office payroll. Last week Chairman Butler struck back at his tormenters with...
...Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, most recently Chief of Staff to NATO Chief General Lauris Norstad. For his growing platoon of speechwriters, Rockefeller signed on Hugh Morrow, onetime Washington correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, more recently the busy strop behind Senator Kenneth Keating's well-honed speeches (TIME, Oct. 5). And Advertising Executive Tom Losee took a leave of absence from his job as vice president of Manhattan's big McCann-Erickson agency to serve as Rocky's top TV-radio consultant...
...Hampshire, the battle lines were drawn. Last week, one month after Nelson Rockefeller's friends set up a GHQ in Concord from which to wage his fight for next March's keynote presidential primary (TIME, Oct. 5), the advocates of Vice President Richard Nixon also pitched camp in Concord with a similar organization. Nixon's high-powered strategy board includes Senators Styles Bridges and Norris Cotton, and onetime Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks...