Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Live . . ." When the President flew on to Salina, Kans., then drove with Mamie in his bubbletop limousine 24 miles through sizable, friendlier crowds to home town Abilene (first visit in four years), he showed much more of his famous, warm, arms-up humanity. In Abilene, in the small white frame house in which he and his brothers grew up, Ike happily showed Mamie how the family had used an old cradlelike dough tray in baking bread...
...legend to distasteful politics-a perfunctory huddle with Kansas' able Gubernatorial Candidate Clyde Reed Jr. ("I'm in his corner." said Ike. "Is that clear enough?"), who has high hopes of unseating wily Democratic Governor George Docking; a fast flight on to Denver, Mamie's home town, where the Eisenhowers' arrival got fouled up by a wretched little scene at the airport. There Ike was greeted and all but engulfed before the photographers by Colorado's Governor Stephen McNichols, another of the Eisenhower era's new Democratic governors, plus photogenic wife and five photogenic...
...Campaigner Chamberlain travels through the Sixth District in a red-white-and-blue campaign trailer ("The mortgage on it." says Chamberlain, "is as long as the trailer itself"), complete with loudspeaker and the recorded works of John Philip Sousa. When the trailer pulls up in a Sixth District town, Chamberlain scrambles out, sets up a sign proclaiming: YOUR CONGRESSMAN is HERE NOW! Then he goes back to his trailer office to await the passing parade of every sort of voter with every sort of problem...
...Dinner. A typically breathless campaign day for Chamberlain began at 7 o'clock one morning last week, found him still going hard in the Genesee County town of Grand Blanc at 7 that night. He suddenly realized that he was already go minutes late for a dinner date with his wife Charlotte, even then waiting for him in front of the Durant Hotel, in nearby Flint. Chamberlain leaped into his red-white-and-blue Chevrolet station wagon, which he uses along with his trailer, and sped toward Flint at 60 m.p.h. His pace had been exhausting, but Chuck Chamberlain...
...Columnists. "Hedda Hopper I like. She's a gallant, crazy old gal with lots of steam. But Louella Parsons I don't like. Louella used to be a reporter with me in Chicago; she was one of the worst reporters the town ever knew . . . She's positively one of the most sad things in Hollywood. She makes it seem like a town full of boss lovers-which it is. She bows when the boss is not there, just his shadow...